Google Doodle: celebrate the 30th anniversary of the World Wide Web

Today we celebrate the 30th anniversary of the World Wide Web (WWW) and as always, in the case of special occasions, Google pays homage to the event with a Doodle . How can we forget the old connections and old computers that gave access to the Internet (different from how we know it now)?

Sir Tim Berners-Lee now considers the Web "a public square, a bookshop, a doctor's office, a shop, a school, a design studio, an office, a cinema, a bank, and much more " . But while there is no optimistic view of the World Wide Web as it is now, Berners-Lee thinks that things can still change.

After all, the very idea of ​​the World Wide Web was defined by Berners-Lee's superior as "vague but exciting" (more precisely, the project was called "Information management: a proposal").

Berners-Lee, however, had provided the basis of what we now know as the WWW but which was initially supposed to be simply "a large hypertextual database with typed links (called Mesh)" and that should have been used by CERN scientists to reach information in the way as simple as possible.

Thanks to the far-sightedness of Berners-Lee (but also of his boss) it was possible to realize and exploit HTML but also the first browser called WorldWideWeb.app .

If the Internet was born well before, in the 1960s, it took a little longer for the World Wide Web, but it succeeded in expanding its influence and the possibilities given to mankind. Jeff Jaffe (CEO of the World Wide Web Consortium) said "there are very few innovations that have really changed everything. The Web is the most interesting innovation of our time". Happy birthday WWW.