Thirty Years of WWW
Well the World Wide Web started 30 years ago today. It's been an amazing journey, most of it good, I certainly have enjoyed using it. Thanks to Tim Berners-Lee and no doubt a team of like minded individuals. I now hear Tim BL has been thinking more about the down side of the web and wonders if there should have been more controls, but I wonder how we'd manage without it?!
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I remember talk of ‘the information super highway’ and wondering what it was all about. 😀
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Sadly like most things, it has its share of nasty, criminal mindsets. But on the whole it has been amazing and continues to develop. Some of the controls could be better, but that’s down to individuals, companies and Governments.
My 90 year old Mum just loves it. She sadly cannot do much on it for herself, but being able to give her my iPad, and let her browse through photographs of her home town, thousands of them, brings back lovely memories for her, and sparks up all sorts of conversations which she leads. She shakes her head in disbelief at what we can now do.😄
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I read a letter the other day about someone's elderly mother. It took him ages to get her to understand the basics but eventually she was able to email. So he took it one step further and sent her a photo. She emailed him saying it was fantastic and she didn't realise you could do that. She was so thrilled she printed the photo and trooped down to the Post Office and posted it back to him.
I find it amazing and quite British to know that TBL didn't charge, say the minimum coinage in the country of the poster for every time someone used it. Imagine making this wonderful invention free to the world. What a gesture. I'm sure he is disappointed in how some aspects of his invention is now being used.
He should join the pantheons of great British inventors.
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I seem to recall my uncle telling me in the very early days, he was a science teacher at the time it started, it was so all the scientists at Cerne could all keep up-to-date with developments without needing to meet to keep abreast.
What a game changer it's been. Shame there's always someone who wants to exploit others for their own gain - totally opposite to the inventor, be that watching stealing etc. I'm delighted I'm far more involved with our daughter and her children who live the other side of the planet than it would otherwise be if it hadn't been invented.
I needed to change a light fitting as 2 bulbs of 3 had gone and neither OH,son or I could remove the bulbs. Asked my brother if he could sort, he asked for photo - no Internet impossible, he arrived with new bulbs and a tool to remove blown bulbs. Quite a saving. I say this to illustrate how some inventions are more bizarre - never come across that before!
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It's was very useful this week when our washing machine went wrong. Googled error code, watched UT video on how to fix, googled part and ordered. Arrived next day and now all working again 🤞for £20. The savings on the repair man will help pay the broadband bill.😉
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It's the level of sophistication since the original inception that I find quite boggling. From basic text with hyperlinks to YouTube, interactive pages that you can use to do your shopping, search facilities that will turn up the most obscure facts. Imagine if we had to go back to even the original basic type pages that were the WWW. You'd have to read your Site Guide and then phone to make a booking!
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It's strange I can't really remember how I first started to engage with the internet, I think it was the introduction of small forum type things or exchanging information (in my own case family history research.) This was probably when some of the wildly inaccurate input started mixed in with the remarkably accurate stuff. Fascinating to recall.
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