Elliotte Rusty Harold reminds us that Internet went into the 30s on 22nd November 2007. A network of heterogeneous networks, that gives you and me the freedom to choose the hardware and the software, which is what the Internet is. I cannot imagine my life without Internet today. It is great to read the WWW summary by Tim Berners Lee at this time, which builds on this philosophy. Unfortunately, even 30 years later there are users who suffer because many of us still provide content in platform-specific ways. We seem to just use, not learn from, earlier inventions and innovations. I hope we will get better.


November 27th, 2007 at 7:12 pm
The year should be 2007 and not 1997 for ‘Internet went into the 30s on 22nd November 1997′
November 27th, 2007 at 7:22 pm
Hehe, thanks for the catch! Corrected.
December 4th, 2007 at 10:11 am
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