Web Turns Fifteen (again?)

Accommodate Students writes "The BBC is amongst those reporting that the World Wide web has turned fifteen. However, 6 August 1991 is not the only date claimed as the 'birthday of the internet'. So, is it time to fight this out to declare an official birthday? Or can the Web carry on like the Queen with (at least) two birthdays per year? The BBC also have a Flash Timeline of 15 years of the web."

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Birthday of the internet?

[Anonymous Coward]

If someone is claiming that, they're WAY off. Web != internet.

Wiki

[ivort]

Wiki - "The first Web site built was at http://info.cern.ch/ [2] and was first put online on August 6, 1991. It provided an explanation about what the World Wide Web was, how one could own a browser and how to set up a Web server. It was also the world's first Web directory, since Berners-Lee maintained a list of other Web sites apart from his own."
http://www.thesecondchancemovie.com/_site/mediapla yer/index.php?id=9f72b0fbe5bde711a0696cac5b339a5e/

Poorly read

[Ronald Dumsfeld]

The BBC article is quite clear, August 6 was when the World Wide Web became possible due to the release of source code on Usenet. The summary indicates a poor understanding that WWW and Internet are not the same thing, whoever wrote the BBC article gets this, and has put together an interesting synopsis of events surrounding the birth of the web.

Without using the word "tubes".

Re:you republican troll

[_xeno_]

No-no-no-no-no. Both of you are wrong.

Al Gore created (not invented) the Internet, not the Web. This is the birthday of the Web, which Tim Berners-Lee created.

(The actual Al Gore quote is something along the lines of "I took the initiative to create the Internet," nothing about inventing. Specifically.)

On a slightly serious note, this is the birthday of the Web: HTML delivered over HTTP, I'd assume. Not the Internet, which can be considered to have a birthday of anywhere between 1982 and 1989 depending on your definition.

But then again, so can the web. Looking over the W3C's timeline you can get several different "birthdays" for the WWW. Another good one might be March 1989, when Tim Berners-Lee wrote his first HTML/HTTP proposal.

The August 6th, 1991 date is the first date that an actual browser was made available to the public and could be thought of as the "birth date" as well.