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Old 12-27-2010, 01:27 PM   #786
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Originally Posted by Regulator75 View Post
The Internet itself is actually much older - if you take it back to Arpanet that was *gasp* 1969. It's the Web (HTTP) that's turning 20. I still remember the day a school friend (and über-nerd) showed me the first web pages, just about the time they were posted (we had NeXTs - the only things it ran on at first - at school). Blew my mind, and I knew life would never be the same again. And it wasn't.

About 7 years ago I was working at an ad agency with a group of web developers and they were all talking about the speed of change of the web and one of them (rhetorically) asked "who even knows nowadays who invented the web?" I just looked at him and said "Tim Berners-Lee." He had never even heard of him, and he was our lead web developer! Kids these days, no sense of history, even as it relates to their jobs.
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