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A short post this, to remind that today is officially the\u00a025th birthday of the World-Wide-Web, in March 1989. It took five years for a conference around the theme<\/a> to be organised and below is a photo from that event.<\/p>\n

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From my perspective and perhaps from the 200 or so others present at that closing session, I went back home and told my young children that the world had changed that week. So it has.<\/p>\n

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And one personal anecdote. In January \u00a01994, a colleague in my department mentioned that they knew the producer of a BBC science program called Tomorrow’s World. He suggested I send him an email describing what the WWW was, and its potential. I did, and he responded a little time later with a link to the very first Web site produced within the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation). To my regret ever since, I did not capture that site as it was then. Of course, it eventually grew \u00a0to the one we now know (and read about<\/a>\u00a0TimBL’s call for a Web Magna Carta on that very site today).<\/p>\n

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Here is another momento, although very sadly not in good condition (it was dropped in the garden, and spent some time buried!). A genuine first WWW conference badge.
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