[Chapter-delegates] press release: World Wide Web's 20thBirthdayHighlights Value Of Open Internet

Thu Mar 12 17:14:45 PDT 2009

Aaah, the 30th anniversary. We celebrated that with Vint & Bob as 
well, although the 30th international link. :-)
http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/csnews/internet_pioneers.html

O.

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From: "Mike Todd" <miketodd at miketodd.com>
To: "Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond" <ocl at gih.com>; "Gerard Ross" 
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20thBirthdayHighlights Value Of Open Internet

> Olivier,
>
> I suppose you may be surprised that the 30th anniversary of the 
> Internet was celebrated at UCLA (Vint Cerf's alma mater) in 
> September 1999.  Of course, a lot of people think that "the 
> Internet" is "the Web" but they are a bit different though email and 
> the web are major components that use the Internet...
>
> Mike Todd
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond" <ocl at gih.com>
> To: "Gerard Ross" <ross at isoc.org>; "Chapter Delegates" 
> <chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.org>
> Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2009 10:28
> Subject: Re: [Chapter-delegates] press release: World Wide Web's 
> 20thBirthdayHighlights Value Of Open Internet
>
>
>> Gerard:
>>
>> 20th birthday? Already?
>> I thought the first Web browser was designed in late 1990?
>> Ref:  http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/WorldWideWeb.html
>>
>> Or is the date taken as the date the first paper about the World 
>> Wide
>> Web was published?
>>
>> Or is it the date of the first publicly widely available Web 
>> browser
>> sometime in 1993 - after Mark Andreessen sent out the notice for 
>> the
>> first release of NCSA Mosaic from University of Illinois at
>> Urbana-Champaign on Usenet mailing lists? (note that NCSA Mosaic
>> wasn't the first browser but it was easier to install on Sun & SGI
>> machines at the time than other browsers which would need much more
>> hacking on compiling...)
>>
>> How time flies...
>>
>>
>>
>> (this is a screen shot that I made of IBM's first Web page running 
>> on
>> a very early version of NCSA Mosaic, back in the days... :-)
>> Note the link to view the documents "without images" - because most
>> computers did not display the images correctly. At the time, I was
>> using a Silicon Graphics SGI IRIS Indigo box - which was the top 
>> stuff
>> for graphics in its era... Sorry for being nostalgic... :-)
>>
>> Kind regards,
>>
>> Olivier
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Gerard Ross" <ross at isoc.org>
>> To: "Chapter Delegates" <chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.org>
>> Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2009 4:48 PM
>> Subject: [Chapter-delegates] press release: World Wide Web's 20th
>> BirthdayHighlights Value Of Open Internet
>>
>>
>>> Hello everyone
>>>
>>> For your reference, here is a press release that we will be 
>>> issuing
>>> shortly.
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> - Gerard
>>>
>>> -------------------------------------------
>>> Press release - for immediate distribution
>>> -------------------------------------------
>>>
>>> WORLD WIDE WEB'S 20TH BIRTHDAY HIGHLIGHTS VALUE OF OPEN INTERNET
>>>
>>> Geneva, Switzerland - 12 March 2009 - As the inventor of the World
>>> Wide Web returns to Geneva for the twentieth birthday of his
>>> creation,  the Internet Society celebrates both his achievement 
>>> and
>>> the open,  standardised Internet platform that made it possible.
>>>
>>> Tim Berners-Lee, helped change the course of history by inventing
>>> the  World Wide Web, while working at the CERN physics laboratory 
>>> in
>>> Geneva, 20 years ago. What some may not realise is that the 
>>> Internet
>>> itself had at that time already been running for more than 15 
>>> years.
>>>
>>> "People often confuse the Internet and the Web," explains Lynn
>>> St.Amour, President and CEO of the Internet Society. "The Internet
>>> is  a vast network of networks, interconnected in many different
>>> physical  ways, yet all speaking a common language, specified by
>>> standardised  protocols. The Web is one - albeit, the most
>>> influential and well  known - of many different applications which
>>> run over the Internet."
>>>
>>> Part of the genius of the Internet is that it allows anyone to
>>> create  new applications and to deploy them without needing the
>>> permission of  any central authority. It achieves this through a
>>> unique model of  development, relying on inclusive processes and
>>> open, freely  accessible standards. This has become known as the
>>> Internet Model, and  it has always been crucial in bringing to
>>> fruition the vision of the  Internet's founders for globally
>>> interconnected and accessible  information.
>>>
>>> "The great achievement of Tim Berners-Lee was to recognise the 
>>> power
>>> and potential in the Internet," said Ms St.Amour. "In many ways, 
>>> the
>>> extraordinary success of the Web illustrates the value of the
>>> Internet's robust, open model of development and use."
>>>
>>> "The 'killer applications' like the Web, email, and instant
>>> messaging  have certainly played a huge part in bringing the
>>> Internet into the  popular consciousness and establishing it as
>>> vital to so many aspects  of modern life and business. The 
>>> Internet
>>> Model makes that possible,  by allowing innovators like 
>>> Berners-Lee
>>> to create, develop, and turn  their visions into reality. The
>>> success of the Web and the many other  Internet applications in 
>>> turn
>>> enriches the Internet and increases its  value for people
>>> everywhere," she said.
>>>
>>>
>>> About the Internet Society
>>> ---------------------------
>>> The Internet Society is an international, non-profit organisation
>>> founded in 1992 to provide leadership in Internet related 
>>> standards,
>>> education, and policy. With offices in Washington, DC, and Geneva,
>>> Switzerland, it is dedicated to ensuring the open development,
>>> evolution, and use of the Internet for the benefit of people
>>> throughout the world.
>>>
>>>
>>> Further details
>>> ----------------
>>>
>>> Gerard Ross
>>> Senior Communications Manager, Internet Society
>>> E-mail: ross at isoc.org
>>> Telephone: +41-228-071-444 x2261
>>> 4, rue des Falaises
>>> CH-1205-Geneva
>>> Switzerland
>>>
>>>
>>> Greg Wood
>>> Senior Communications Manager, Internet Society
>>> E-mail: wood at isoc.org
>>> Telephone: +1-703-439-2120 x2145
>>> 1775 Wiehle Avenue
>>> Suite 201
>>> Reston, VA
>>> 20190-5108 U.S.A.
>>>
>>>
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