10,000th day of the Internet

[jdandy]

The world wide web is still in its infancy but through its public release and overwhelming adoption in our daily lives, there has been a tremendous impact around the world.

On March 12, 1989 Tim Berners-Lee submitted a proposal for a distributed information system at CERN that later became what we know now as the World Wide Web. That makes today, Thursday, July 28, 2016 the 10,000th day of the Internet.

[Cohibaman]

Originally Posted by jdandy

The world wide web is still in its infancy but through its public release and overwhelming adoption in our daily lives, there has been a tremendous impact around the world. On March 12, 1989 Tim Berners-Lee submitted a proposal for a distributed information system at CERN that later became what we know now as the World Wide Web. That makes today, Thursday, July 28, 2016 the 10,000th day of the Internet.

I didn't know Al Gore changed his name.

[doguniverse]

Dan, I am sure you marked everyday all your calendars to reach this moment

[jdandy]

Originally Posted by doguniverse

Dan, I am sure you marked everyday all your calendars to reach this moment

David.......I have to mark the calendar. At my age I can't remember what I had for dinner two days ago.

[Higgens]

A little clarification is in order. The Internet has been around since the early 1960's. The worldwide web was created in 1989.

[audioguy3107]

Man, what the heck would we do without Berners-Lee? Don't know if anyone has read it, but Walter Isaacson's book The Innovators is a good read.....gives a nice history of computers up through the digital age. Covers a good bit of the original ARPANET and how it became the backbone of the intermet. Pretty interesting book.

[PHC1]

Wow, 10,000 days. I had a computer before then but I've been on the world wide web since '92 when AOL was in it's infancy. My my how time flies.