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



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).
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