People are thanking Tim Berners-Lee to mark the 25th anniversary of the World Wide We
 

People are thanking Tim Berners-Lee to mark the 25th anniversary of the World Wide Web
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LONDON — One British computer scientist is going to have a hell of a lot of Twitter **tifications by the end of the day.

On Tuesday morning, people took to social media to mark Internaut Day — the anniversary of the date on which Tim Berners-Lee made the World Wide Web openly available for people to use, 25 years ago.

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Some people shared a timeline to show how much things have changed since then.



Others began re-sharing this old spoof "newspaper article" that did the rounds a few years ago.



Some remembered Berners-Lee's cameo in the London 2012 opening ceremony (which definitely wasn't a spoof). Read more...

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