{"id":24647,"date":"2014-03-12T09:05:59","date_gmt":"2014-03-12T14:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=24647"},"modified":"2014-03-12T09:05:59","modified_gmt":"2014-03-12T14:05:59","slug":"a-short-history-of-the-web","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2014\/03\/12\/a-short-history-of-the-web\/","title":{"rendered":"A short history of the web"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the <em>Guardian<\/em>, 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?):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>A partial history of the open web, in snakes and ladders form<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It was 25 years ago today that Tim Berners-Lee suggested the creation of the world wide web. As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2014\/mar\/12\/online-magna-carta-berners-lee-web\" target=\"_blank\">the creator speaks to the Guardian about his hopes for its future<\/a>, we look at the triumphs of accessibility and challenges to openness that mark the history of the web<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/ng-interactive\/2014\/mar\/12\/a-partial-history-of-the-open-web\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/A-short-history-of-the-web.png\" alt=\"A short history of the web\" width=\"938\" height=\"690\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24648\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/A-short-history-of-the-web.png 938w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/A-short-history-of-the-web-150x110.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/A-short-history-of-the-web-480x353.png 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 938px) 100vw, 938px\" \/><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>However, pay attention to the claims in many headlines, as  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2014\/03\/12\/tim_berners_lee_inventor_of_the_internet_headline_fails\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kelly Fiveash<\/a> suggests:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Top 5 headlines that claim Tim Berners Lee &#8216;INVENTED the INTERNET&#8217;. Whoops!<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>You&#8217;ll never guess what happened next<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Newspapers are quite rightly back-slapping Brit inventor Tim Berners-Lee today &mdash; the man who brought the world wide web to the, er, world 25 years ago today.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a pity, then, that mainstream publications continue to stumble over the concept by lazily and wrongly saying that Berners-Lee birthed the internet.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. 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