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

Fri Mar 13 14:00:17 PDT 2009

If anyone is interested, I wrote up my take on Sir Tim's keynote at CERN
today:
http://weblog.chrisgrundemann.com/index.php/2009/sir-tim-looking-forward-not-back-as-web-turns-20/
~Chris

On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 09:05, Gerard Ross <ross at isoc.org> wrote:

> 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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