World Wide Web’s Twentieth Birthday Celebrated

I may be biased, but  I think this has to be one of the most important anniversaries! The trip to the Moon 40 years ago may well gain more inches in the newspapers, but what, other than the silver sheets you see marathon runners wearing after the race did NASA ever give us! The internet on the other hand has been life changing!

Twenty years back, a young UK-born scientist named Tim Berners-Lee approached his senior at CERN to present a roadmap for transferring data online, and the blueprint matured later on to become what is prominently known as ‘World Wide Web‘.

Since twenty years of its birth, the internet has been an incredible success story, with around 200 million websites as well as more than one trillion unique URLs currently there on the web, and a whopping 1.6 billion people are online.

Addressing ‘The Web At 20’ launch event for the BBC Two series ‘Digital Revolution’, Sir Tim Berners-Lee has urged governments and businesses should restrict the monitoring they do on internet users.

The inventor of the internet asserted that soaring supervision of internet browsing could have pernicious effect on users, and that the substantial part of the value of internet rest in lack of restrictions on what users could do with it.He further said that the internet should be considered as a “blank sheet of paper”. Since governments and companies simply don’t monitor what people are writing or drawing on that sheet, so they should stop policing users’ online activities.

“The trend over the years is that the internet in the end goes around censorship and openness eventually triumphs. But it is by no means an easy road”, he said.

Original article created by by Desire Athow for IT Portal.com and replicated with thanks