Danke Tim Berners-Lee, das Internet wird 20 Jahre!

"...ist ein britischer Physiker und Informatiker. Er ist der Erfinder der HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) und der Begründer des World Wide Web. Heute steht er dem World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) vor, ist Professor am Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) und hat seit 2004 einen Lehrstuhl an der Universität Southampton inne..."

Irgendwann im Jahre 1992, als es noch nur eine Handvoll von Web-Servern in der ganzen Welt gab, dachen Tim Berners-Lee und Robert Cailliau darüber nach, wie man Dinge verbreiten könnte. Robert Cailliau schreibt dazu auf den Webseiten von cern.ch:

"People say that WWW took in a spectacular way, but compared to earlier technologies of global impact, such as the railways, electricity and aviation, it was not faster. One can argue that maybe it was significantly slower: the train had to be physically placed with little or no equipment and few roads other than the supply rails just been set. The web software could be downloaded from our servers using the existing Internet connection in a few seconds or minutes. However, it took at least six years before the media regularly covered WWW progress, and we still talk about digital divide. I think the reason lies in the very different nature of the digital world. Trains and airplanes are easy to explain their purpose is clearly defined and they touch our physical life. But the Internet takes all the attention of our brain. No physical technique does."