The Internet Web Is 25: How Do We Keep It Open and Free?
This week is the 25th anniversary of the creation of the Internet a.k.a. the World Wide Web. Yesterday Google shared a message from the Internet’s Web’s inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee. In March 1989 he shared a proposal for “a ‘web’ of notes with links between them” or a non-linear system using “hypertext” which I remember (as someone who used the precursors of the Internet) as a hot topic at the time.
Berners-Lee takes the opportunity to ask some important questions in urging us to keep the Internet open and free:
. . . [more]So today is a day to celebrate. But it’s also