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Web Turns Fifteen (again?)

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the how-old-is-this-darn-thing dept.

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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  1. Birthday of the internet? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

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

    1. Re:Birthday of the internet? by aplusjimages · · Score: 5, Funny

      When do you think the birth of tbe internet was?

      I guess when porn was introduced. Before that no one was using it. Am I right or am I right?

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  2. I did my part. by krell · · Score: 5, Funny

    I already sent Al Gore a birthday card and a nice fruit basket.

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  3. Difference between "the Web" and "the Internet" by josephtd · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Even the article summary seems to confuse the World Wide Web with the Internet. And we are surprised there is confusion over the birthday? The article is pretty heavily focused on the WWW, so I think this is just a bad summary. Shocked, I am.

  4. A place to fight by truthsearch · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's a really simple debate. Just edit the wikipedia entry so this birthdate becomes part of wikiality. The facts are far more important than the truth.

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  5. Wiki by ivort · · Score: 5, Informative

    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/

  6. Check Wikipedia by Hootenanny · · Score: 5, Funny

    Multiple dates have been claimed as the birthday for the internet - so let's settle this by checking Wikipedia.

    According to Wikipedia - the gold standard for such important questions - the internet was conceived on October 12, 1492. (Also worth noting, Carl Friedrich Gauss was the first person to hold the title of "webmaster".)

  7. Huh? by nstlgc · · Score: 5, Funny

    Didn't the Web just turn 2.0?

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