"Twenty years ago this month, something happened at CERN that would change the world forever: Tim Berners-Lee handed a document to his supervisor Mike Sendall entitled "Information Management : a Proposal". "Vague, but exciting" is how Mike described it, and he gave Tim the nod to take his proposal forward. The following year, the World Wide Web was born."
Yes, hard to believe, that the www is 20 years old this month [March] and to ponder how we all "survived" without it. The breadth and depth of what the web has brought to the world is incalculable. And yet, as FP [Foreign Policy] reports in "The List: Look Who's Censoring the Internet Now" whilst we always accuse China and Iran of censoring access to the internet or what is available to be read and seen, other countries are presently embarked on seeking to curb ready access to everything on the www.
Read the FP piece here.
Yes, hard to believe, that the www is 20 years old this month [March] and to ponder how we all "survived" without it. The breadth and depth of what the web has brought to the world is incalculable. And yet, as FP [Foreign Policy] reports in "The List: Look Who's Censoring the Internet Now" whilst we always accuse China and Iran of censoring access to the internet or what is available to be read and seen, other countries are presently embarked on seeking to curb ready access to everything on the www.
Read the FP piece here.
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