Today, 13th of March 2009, the World Wide Web turns 20 years old. Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented this world-changing layer on top of the Internet on this day in 1989. It’s hard to overstate the impact this young technology has had already and it’s even more exciting to think about where it’s going in the future.
Happy birthday WWW!
[via ReadWriteWeb]
Conventional wisdom has it that Mosaic was the first graphical web browser. Even though Mosaic – the basis for Netscape – certainly kickstarted the web revolution, it wasn’t the first graphical web browser at all – that honour goes to Erwise, developed by four Finnish college students in 1991. It was more advanced than Mosaic, ran on the X Window System, but didn’t catch on in the end. The four developers recently gave an interview detailing Erwise and its history.
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