Exactly 25 years ago, on March 12, 1989, this British specialist in information technology laid the foundations of the international internet.
The codes became known a year later under the name WorldWideWeb, the www we all necessarily use.
"Do not confuse the web with the web" reminds the specialized Moket.fr site and demonstrates the important differences between internet, web and Net. It adds that the classic date of birth of the internet is 7 in April 1969, when the first ArpeNet, ie 20, was invented all the time before www invented Tim Burton.
But without the idea of the British there would be no phenomenon of 2,7 billion internet users visiting the 919 million sites on the web. And the thirst for the Internet is growing: 53% of users in America can no longer live without the Internet, while only 34% care about their TV, according to research by Pew Research Center. 90% of respondents in the survey think that the internet is a good thing.
Is the www in danger of getting old fast? "The Web is only half built. It's not really international yet," says Mark Weber of the Museum of Computer History in California. Well, we have time...