Happy Birthday World Wide Web

15 years ago, the world wide web was born.

It all started in 1989, at the European Centre for Nuclear Research, and home of the World's largest particle accelerator, sitting on the French-Swiss border, CERN. The project was named ENQUIRE, and was the brainchild of Sir Tim Berners-Lee.

Project ENQUIRE used the now familiar concept of hypertext links to allow researchers to share and update information across their computers.

The first web site went online late in 1991, under the Uniform Resource Locator (URL) http://info.cern.ch after links to the code behind the web were first posted to the alt.hypertext discussion board in August.

CERN declared in 1993, that the world wide web would be free for use by anyone. Html web page programming language was released the same year.

Even though the web is 15 years' old, Sir Tim shared with the World Wide Web Conference in Edinburgh in May, that the web is still in its infancy. “We are at the embryonic stages of the web. The web is going to be more revolutionary,” he said.

He went on to predict that we should expect “a huge amount of change to come” highlighting recent developments such as the Google search algorithm, the blogging online diary phenomenon and collaborative wikis.

Whatever has happened so far, we're only at the beginning of a very, very long journey!