Marecki on 11/3/2009 at 19:09
...also known as WWW, which as some of you may know was developed at CERN. The following announcement, which I believe some of you may find interesting, was made today by the Director General:
Quote:
Twenty years ago this month, something happened at CERN that would change the world forever: Tim Berners-Lee handed a document to his supervisor Mike Sendall entitled "Information Management : a Proposal". "Vague, but exciting" is how Mike described it, and he gave Tim the nod to take his proposal forward. The following year, the World Wide Web was born. This week, it's a pleasure and an honour for us to welcome the Web's inventor back to CERN to mark this special anniversary at the place the Web was born.
The celebration will take place in the Globe this Friday afternoon from 14:00 to 17:30. It will consist of short presentations from Web veterans, a keynote speech from Tim Berners-Lee with a demonstration of the original browser, and a series of presentations from people that Tim believes are doing exciting things with the Web today.
Although the event is by invitation only, everyone at CERN will be able to follow the event, either via a webcast at (
http://webcast.cern.ch), or on the website of the French news channel, lci.fr. The event will also be relayed to the Main Auditorium, the AB auditoriums in Meyrin and Prévessin, the Council Chamber, the AT auditorium and restaurant 2.
If you have any questions you'd like to ask Tim Berners-Lee, there will be an opportunity provided by the organizers of the Lift '09 conference, which took place last month in Geneva. If you have a question to ask, you can submit it via (
http://asklift.com/www-at-20/), and the most popular ones will be put to at the end of the afternoon.
With 2009 being declared the Year of Creativity and Innovation by the European Union, the 20th anniversary of the Web serves as a timely reminder of the powerful role that creativity in basic research plays as a driver of innovation. I hope you enjoy the celebration.
Rolf Heuer
In short: there will be a celebration this Friday from 14:00 to 17:30 CET, it will be broadcast on the Web and you can ask Sir Tim Berners-Lee questions.
I wonder if we can get him to sing "The Internet is for porn"...
Koki on 11/3/2009 at 19:15
And it was such a good idea back then.
june gloom on 11/3/2009 at 19:25
You mean Al Gore wasn't the inventor? I'm so disillusioned.
Martin Karne on 11/3/2009 at 22:02
I was there when they invented the internet, I was holding their electrons in my hands!!!!
Ok I got an electric shock back then, sorry.
PeeperStorm on 12/3/2009 at 01:22
I remember my first web page. I had to arrange the electrons by hand to see what it said. Of course, I had to shut the computer off soon after when the vacuum tubes started to overheat and set fire to the warehouse that we stored it in...
fett on 12/3/2009 at 01:50
This is useless. I celebrate laziness and porn every day.
Enchantermon on 12/3/2009 at 02:58
Quote Posted by Marecki
I wonder if we can get him to sing "The Internet is for porn"...
:laff:
Kolya on 12/3/2009 at 09:36
Where's the source for that announcement? I wanted to mail the link to a friend (who's also on the Internet!) but the only source I can find is this thread.
Marecki on 13/3/2009 at 02:50
Quote Posted by Kolya
Where's the source for that announcement? I wanted to mail the link to a friend (who's also on the Internet!) but the only source I can find is this thread.
I guess you (
http://info.cern.ch/www20/) didn't look in the right place, Kolya... I didn't post the link earlier because I didn't know about it (what I quoted was an e-mail from the DG to CERN personnel), however at least for now it can be found right on top of the public Web page of CERN.
