Happy Birthday World Wide Web

WWW turned fifteen today. Google groups has the archived posting from Tim Berners-Lee making the announcement.

From: Tim Berners-Lee
Date: Tues, Aug 6 1991 12:00 pm
Email: timbl@info .cern.ch (Tim Berners-Lee)
Groups: alt.hypertext
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In article <6...@cernvax.cern.ch> I promised to post a short summary of the WorldWideWeb project. Mail me with any queries.

WorldWideWeb - Executive Summary
The WWW project merges the techniques of information retrieval and hypertext to make an easy but powerful global information system.

The project started with the philosophy that much academic information should be freely available to anyone. It aims to allow information sharing within internationally dispersed teams, and the dissemination of information by support groups.

I remember where I was when I first heard about it. I have been on the internet for some time as well as running a multi-line BBS system. I was sitting in Seattle's Caf� Allegro when a guy who worked at the UW physics department came in reading this document. He sat down at my table and let me read it (we were friends). The overall thought was: "This is going to be big. Really really really BIG!" Talk about understatement...