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

Fri Mar 13 08:05:35 PDT 2009

Hi Bill

Thanks very much for your words & for sharing your email to Sir Tim.

Cheers
- Gerard

On 13/03/2009, at 3:00 AM, William Favre Slater, III wrote:

> Gerard and Olivier,
>
> Attached is the congratulations e-mail I send Sir Tim this evening.   
> It's
> very important to celebrate and give thanks for this amazing, life-
> changing, history-changing accomplishment.  Considering all the  
> goodness
> that the WWW has accomplished, second only to the Internet, it may be
> humankind's greatest achievement.
>
> I wish you all the best on this great day in the history of computer  
> and
> networking technologies.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Bill
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> On Thu, March 12, 2009 12:48 pm, Gerard Ross wrote:
>> Hi Olivier
>>
>> You're right on the money with the note about the proposal to create
>> the Web. We may debate whether that is conception rather than birth,
>> but in fact at CERN, they and Tim Berners-Lee have agreed on that
>> particular event as the appropriate landmark to celebrate!
>>
>>   http://info.cern.ch/www20/
>>   http://info.cern.ch/
>>
>> And so tomorrow, Sir Tim will be back at CERN for the special
>> celebrations. It will be webcast, by the way, at 14:00 CET (details  
>> at
>> the link above).
>>
>> Also, Rudi Vansnick has just reminded me that his fellow Beligian,
>> Robert Caillau, was a key collaborator in the development of the Web.
>> Apologies, Rudi, for failing to mention that in the press release,  
>> but
>> for those wanting to learn more about the "world's first web surfer",
>> there's a good profile on the CERN site:
>>
>>   http://public.web.cern.ch/PUBLIC/en/People/Cailliau-en.html
>>
>> Cheers everyone
>> - Gerard
>>
>> --
>> Gerard Ross
>> Senior Communications Manager
>> Internet Society
>> Email: ross at isoc.org
>>
>>
>>
>> On 12/03/2009, at 6:28 PM, Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond wrote:
>>
>>> 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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