Happy Birthday WWW

[NickFitz]

25 today

BBC News - Sir Tim Berners-Lee: World wide web needs bill of rights

Note to journalists almost everywhere: it's the web's birthday not the Internet's.

[MicrosoftBob]

It's really Arpanet that led to the web, everything else was a matter of time

[VectraMan]

I wonder how many billions of dollars/pounds/your favourite currency has been lost by people everywhere having to say "double-u double-u double-u" rather than something more concise? Sir Tim has a lot to answer for.

[Gittins Gal]

KUATB

[NickFitz]

KUATB

[cailin maith]

Note to journalists almost everywhere: it's the web's birthday not the Internet's.

Whats the difference? I thought it was the same thing.

Geeks of CUK, please educate me.

Ta

[stek]

I wonder how many billions of dollars/pounds/your favourite currency has been lost by people everywhere having to say "double-u double-u double-u" rather than something more concise? Sir Tim has a lot to answer for.

Women Wearing Wings, or Whisky With Water, that's how you remember it.

[xoggoth]

It's Wibbly Wobbly Woo for me.

[mudskipper]

Whats the difference? I thought it was the same thing.

Geeks of CUK, please educate me.

Ta

www is basically the set of protocols used to share stuff on the internet. So the internet existed before the www, but www is HTML, HTTP, URLs etc and the stuff that has made the internet what it is today.

[Gittins Gal]

Whats the difference? I thought it was the same thing.

Geeks of CUK, please educate me.

Ta

The innernet, as I understand it, basically started as some kind of military wide area network and it later evolved into the www as we know it today.