Why this date in World Wide Web History might **t matter
 

Why this date in World Wide Web History might **t matter
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Let’s get real about #InternautDay.

Today is being celebrated as the 25th anniversary of public access to the World Wide Web, (aka Happy #InternautDay), but in the history of the internet and Web access, this is a fairly inauspicious date. *In fact, my recollection of Aug. 23, 1991, is that there really was ** such thing as public Internet or something called (much more frequently then) the World Wide Web. There was certainly **thing approaching the tiniest fraction of the Web we experience today.

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Scientists, researchers, the military and academics knew of the Internet, which in the late '60s started as Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) and tied together universities like Harvard and research facilities like Ames into an unprecedented global network. Average people, though, **t so much. And the fact that on this August day of yore they could access the nascent Web passed with virtually ** fanfare Read more...

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