Rizal Philippines | March 11, 2014
Prof Tim Bernes Lees brainchild was the web
From NBC news by Keith Wagstaff
Tomorrow is the 25th birthday of the web. when Prof Tim Bernes Lee released the code for data transfer to the world for free It would have been as old as Harry Potter. This was a result of scientific paper entitled: "Information Management: a Proposal" at a physics laboratory in Switzerland, 25 years this week Before this was emails and forums but thereafter, data was shared with just anybody. It became a mass adapted technology. The ww was not widely used until December 20 1990 when Prof Lee created the first website. It made its debut to the public on August 6, 1991.
According to Al Jazeera forum last night, there are over 2 billion internet users and the number is growing at the rate of 8 new users a second (I just joined the group 3 years ago this April) the ranking of users are: USA, Europe, ME China, Asia, and Africa. Africa lags the rest of the world in web use. But it has great potential. Drones are seen as a solution to this problem by having geostationary drone deliver broadband for free.
Is it a good or bad thing?
Good: faster learning, faster research, connectivity
Bad thing: censorship, hacking, computer fraud privacy issues
Is internet good or bad?
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