At the Guardian, an amusing way to present the short-but-fascinating history of the World Wide Web (when did we stop calling it by its formal name?):
A partial history of the open web, in snakes and ladders form
It was 25 years ago today that Tim Berners-Lee suggested the creation of the world wide web. As the creator speaks to the Guardian about his hopes for its future, we look at the triumphs of accessibility and challenges to openness that mark the history of the web
However, pay attention to the claims in many headlines, as Kelly Fiveash suggests:
Top 5 headlines that claim Tim Berners Lee ‘INVENTED the INTERNET’. Whoops!
You’ll never guess what happened nextNewspapers are quite rightly back-slapping Brit inventor Tim Berners-Lee today — the man who brought the world wide web to the, er, world 25 years ago today.
It’s a pity, then, that mainstream publications continue to stumble over the concept by lazily and wrongly saying that Berners-Lee birthed the internet.
Sub-editors across the land are scrambling to correct copy that was carelessly slapped online with headlines stupidly claiming that TBL was the god-like creature who came up with the network of networks idea.
