Ooops! I made the mistake of stealing one glance at my aggregator and found this (What is the future of “The World Wide Web?”) from Mark Kramer’s Smart Mobs. It seems that it was 15 years ago, today, that directors at the CERN lab (birthplace of WWW), signed a document proclaiming that the technology would be available to the world, free of charge. [image ((Prometheos, “Searchology-Web-Graph.” Prometheos’ Photostream. 7 Jun 2008. 30 Apr 2008 http://flickr.com/photos/23351126@N00/534201098/.))]
The BBC News, as a commemoration of the occasion, conducted interviews with several of the key players in the early web (and others), and published comments in Luminaries look to the Future Web ((“Luminaries Look to the Future Web.” BBC NEWS 30 Apr 2008 30 Apr 2008 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7373717.stm.)). Comments from the following are shared:
There is a great history of the Internet on the Science channel, you can find it On Demand 🙂