Internaut Day Might Not Be the Web Anniversary You're Looking For (fortune.com)

David Meyer, reporting for Fortune: The web arguably went public before August 23, 1991. Social media users are enthusiastically celebrating "Internaut Day" on Tuesday. They're thanking Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of the World Wide Web, for first providing public access to it on this day in 1991, precisely a quarter of a century back. The only problem is that the supposed importance of Internaut Day doesn't seem to be supported by much evidence. Berners-Lee submitted his seminal proposal for a new information management system to CERN on March 12, 1989, a date which Berners-Lee celebrates as the birthday of the web. The building blocks were specified and written up by October 1990, and the first webpage went live in December that year. So when somebody celebrates the "Internaut Day" today, it really doesn't seem like the right occasion. The report adds: According to Wikipedia, that's when "new users could [first] access" the web -- and that's what a gazillion news stories on Tuesday are supposedly celebrating. But it doesn't square with what the Web Foundation and CERN say.

Comments

Re:Yeah, so?

[Maritz]

No evidence Jesus was born on Dec 25th? Yes, we already know this. No evidence Jesus was born? No, the evidence is pretty solid. Evidence Jesus was God? Evidence, but highly disputed.

Seeing as you've no links, allow me to retort. Nope, no solid evidence that the biblical Jesus was a real historical person. Nope, no evidence whatsoever that he was "god" (note the lower case G).

It sounds like you're presupposing that the abrahamic god exists, so let me just point out that there's just as much evidence for Zeus.

Thanks.