15th Birthday of Internet

August 5 fifteen years ago a baby named internet was born. It’s then more known as world wide web. So, Saturday August 2006 might be celebrated by the internet enthusiasts as the hallmarks of new world. A kind of world that is entirely unthinkable and unimaginable by those who died before it. No body before that day would ever think that a few years after its birth, things change very dramatically. For the better or the worse.

I myself would never ever think before that day that I would be able to communicate to and converse with people and community beyond my visible and my physical reach: my neighbours and my colleagues.

It is simply unimaginable then what I have had today through internet. And I think millions of people out there have shared the same feeling. And I think you’d agree with me that had there been a nomination for what kind of things/people that influence this world the most during the last two decades, internet would have been the first and the sole winner.

How would you remember this day is of your own choice. But let me celebrate it my way by quoting a good piece from an Indian newspaper which highligting the short history of internet. Here’s the excerpt:

On August 6 in 1991, Tim Berners Lee came up with a programme to link and browse the web.

Though the Internet had come into existence much earlier, his software aimed to allow links to be made to any information anywhere. Berners Lee also made available all files necessary for people to replicate his invention. Thus was born the era of the world wide web. Inspired after a meeting with Berners Lee, Stanford University scientist Paul Kunz came up with the first web server in the US. Together, these two components constituted Americaâ??s first website. Then came the dotcom boom.

The later half of the 1990s witnessed websites like Amazon and Google make a foray into the webworld. Internet Explorer and Hotmail came into being during 1995 and 1996, respectively. One smart individual figured out a way to share his music files and created Napster in May 1999.

By 2000, the dotcom fever lost heat, and one saw a series of websites shut shop. Today, the web probably means everything to us. Buying, selling, chatting, video. the list of its utilities has no end.

Well, how do you celebrate the internet day?

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