Celebrate Today on the Worldwide Web

It was 25 years ago today that the first website was launched on what became know as the Worldwide Web (www). It was August 6, 1991 when Sir Tim Berners-Lee offered the first page of text and links that led to our modern information highway.

For Berners-Lee it was all about information. Considered by many as 'the father of the web', he believed that academic information should be readily available, and free to the public. Little did he know that millions of pages would follow and today, information abounds, though certainly not exclusive to academics.

There was no fanfare on this date in '91, how could there be, as very few people either knew where to look or had the tools to search.

Berners-Lee launched with a NeXT computer, the brainchild of the late Steve Jobs who founded NeXT during his brief exile from Apple. The noteworthy event took place in Geneva, Switzerland at the headquarters for "Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire" (CERN), which is French for the European Organization for Nuclear Research. CERN accelerates and crashes atomic particles at speeds near that of light, to study the effects in hopes of better understanding the laws of physics.

Those who gathered with Berners-Lee on that date could hardly imagine the acceleration and crashing of technology and information that has followed, unabated ever since.

Happy Birthday www.