If anyone is interested, I wrote up my take on Sir Tim's keynote at CERN today: <a href="http://weblog.chrisgrundemann.com/index.php/2009/sir-tim-looking-forward-not-back-as-web-turns-20/">http://weblog.chrisgrundemann.com/index.php/2009/sir-tim-looking-forward-not-back-as-web-turns-20/</a><br>
~Chris<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 09:05, Gerard Ross <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ross@isoc.org">ross@isoc.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi Bill<br>
<br>
Thanks very much for your words & for sharing your email to Sir Tim.<br>
<br>
Cheers<br>
- Gerard<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
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On 13/03/2009, at 3:00 AM, William Favre Slater, III wrote:<br>
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Gerard and Olivier,<br>
<br>
Attached is the congratulations e-mail I send Sir Tim this evening. It's<br>
very important to celebrate and give thanks for this amazing, life-<br>
changing, history-changing accomplishment. Considering all the goodness<br>
that the WWW has accomplished, second only to the Internet, it may be<br>
humankind's greatest achievement.<br>
<br>
I wish you all the best on this great day in the history of computer and<br>
networking technologies.<br>
<br>
Best regards,<br>
<br>
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On Thu, March 12, 2009 12:48 pm, Gerard Ross wrote:<br>
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Hi Olivier<br>
<br>
You're right on the money with the note about the proposal to create<br>
the Web. We may debate whether that is conception rather than birth,<br>
but in fact at CERN, they and Tim Berners-Lee have agreed on that<br>
particular event as the appropriate landmark to celebrate!<br>
<br>
<a href="http://info.cern.ch/www20/" target="_blank">http://info.cern.ch/www20/</a><br>
<a href="http://info.cern.ch/" target="_blank">http://info.cern.ch/</a><br>
<br>
And so tomorrow, Sir Tim will be back at CERN for the special<br>
celebrations. It will be webcast, by the way, at 14:00 CET (details at<br>
the link above).<br>
<br>
Also, Rudi Vansnick has just reminded me that his fellow Beligian,<br>
Robert Caillau, was a key collaborator in the development of the Web.<br>
Apologies, Rudi, for failing to mention that in the press release, but<br>
for those wanting to learn more about the "world's first web surfer",<br>
there's a good profile on the CERN site:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://public.web.cern.ch/PUBLIC/en/People/Cailliau-en.html" target="_blank">http://public.web.cern.ch/PUBLIC/en/People/Cailliau-en.html</a><br>
<br>
Cheers everyone<br>
- Gerard<br>
<br>
--<br>
Gerard Ross<br>
Senior Communications Manager<br>
Internet Society<br>
Email: <a href="mailto:ross@isoc.org" target="_blank">ross@isoc.org</a><br>
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On 12/03/2009, at 6:28 PM, Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond wrote:<br>
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Gerard:<br>
<br>
20th birthday? Already?<br>
I thought the first Web browser was designed in late 1990?<br>
Ref: <a href="http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/WorldWideWeb.html" target="_blank">http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/WorldWideWeb.html</a><br>
<br>
Or is the date taken as the date the first paper about the World<br>
Wide Web was published?<br>
<br>
Or is it the date of the first publicly widely available Web browser<br>
sometime in 1993 - after Mark Andreessen sent out the notice for the<br>
first release of NCSA Mosaic from University of Illinois at Urbana-<br>
Champaign on Usenet mailing lists? (note that NCSA Mosaic wasn't the<br>
first browser but it was easier to install on Sun & SGI machines at<br>
the time than other browsers which would need much more hacking on<br>
compiling...)<br>
<br>
How time flies...<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
(this is a screen shot that I made of IBM's first Web page running<br>
on a very early version of NCSA Mosaic, back in the days... :-)<br>
Note the link to view the documents "without images" - because most<br>
computers did not display the images correctly. At the time, I was<br>
using a Silicon Graphics SGI IRIS Indigo box - which was the top<br>
stuff for graphics in its era... Sorry for being nostalgic... :-)<br>
<br>
Kind regards,<br>
<br>
Olivier<br>
<br>
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Hello everyone<br>
<br>
For your reference, here is a press release that we will be issuing<br>
shortly.<br>
<br>
Regards<br>
- Gerard<br>
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Press release - for immediate distribution<br>
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WORLD WIDE WEB'S 20TH BIRTHDAY HIGHLIGHTS VALUE OF OPEN INTERNET<br>
<br>
Geneva, Switzerland - 12 March 2009 - As the inventor of the World<br>
Wide Web returns to Geneva for the twentieth birthday of his<br>
creation, the Internet Society celebrates both his achievement and<br>
the open, standardised Internet platform that made it possible.<br>
<br>
Tim Berners-Lee, helped change the course of history by inventing<br>
the World Wide Web, while working at the CERN physics laboratory<br>
in Geneva, 20 years ago. What some may not realise is that the<br>
Internet itself had at that time already been running for more than<br>
15 years.<br>
<br>
"People often confuse the Internet and the Web," explains Lynn<br>
St.Amour, President and CEO of the Internet Society. "The Internet<br>
is a vast network of networks, interconnected in many different<br>
physical ways, yet all speaking a common language, specified by<br>
standardised protocols. The Web is one - albeit, the most<br>
influential and well known - of many different applications which<br>
run over the Internet."<br>
<br>
Part of the genius of the Internet is that it allows anyone to<br>
create new applications and to deploy them without needing the<br>
permission of any central authority. It achieves this through a<br>
unique model of development, relying on inclusive processes and<br>
open, freely accessible standards. This has become known as the<br>
Internet Model, and it has always been crucial in bringing to<br>
fruition the vision of the Internet's founders for globally<br>
interconnected and accessible information.<br>
<br>
"The great achievement of Tim Berners-Lee was to recognise the<br>
power and potential in the Internet," said Ms St.Amour. "In many<br>
ways, the extraordinary success of the Web illustrates the value of<br>
the Internet's robust, open model of development and use."<br>
<br>
"The 'killer applications' like the Web, email, and instant<br>
messaging have certainly played a huge part in bringing the<br>
Internet into the popular consciousness and establishing it as<br>
vital to so many aspects of modern life and business. The Internet<br>
Model makes that possible, by allowing innovators like Berners-Lee<br>
to create, develop, and turn their visions into reality. The<br>
success of the Web and the many other Internet applications in<br>
turn enriches the Internet and increases its value for people<br>
everywhere," she said.<br>
<br>
<br>
About the Internet Society<br>
---------------------------<br>
The Internet Society is an international, non-profit organisation<br>
founded in 1992 to provide leadership in Internet related<br>
standards, education, and policy. With offices in Washington, DC,<br>
and Geneva, Switzerland, it is dedicated to ensuring the open<br>
development, evolution, and use of the Internet for the benefit of<br>
people throughout the world.<br>
<br>
<br>
Further details<br>
----------------<br>
<br>
Gerard Ross<br>
Senior Communications Manager, Internet Society<br>
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Telephone: +41-228-071-444 x2261<br>
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