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History Notes Special: World Wide Web Turns 30

March 17, 2019 by Wayne Creed 2 Comments

This week marks the 30th anniversary of the World Wide Web.

“Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts… A graphic representation of data abstracted from banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding…” 
― William Gibson, Neuromancer

The Cape Charles Mirror, of course, has embraced this decentralized, consensual hallucination. Our first article was published to the web on June 26, 2015.

Below are some of the events that helped shape the interweb:

In 2001 @Wikipedia was launched.

In 2002, the @creativecommons license was introduced to promote the innovative reuse of all types of intellectual works, unlock the power of sharing, and transform others’ work.

In 2003, @ArtistShare launched as the Internet’s first “crowdfunding” platform spawning entire new industry.


In 2003, W3C announced its Patent Policy.


In 2003, http://4chan.org  was born, proving even old-fashioned UI and UX can still support decades of discussion.

In 2003, @WordPress was created to democratize publishing on the open web.

In 2004, ‘The @facebook‘ was created to help students at @Harvard connect.

In 2004, a year after receiving the Nobel Peace Prize, laureate Shirin Ebadi began using the web as a powerful tool to fight dictators. She has been mobilizing for human rights online ever since.

In 2004 @Flickr launched with all the hope, enthusiasm & optimism that had been present since the dawn of the web.

In 2005, I registered http://Reddit.com  from a computer in Alderman Library at @UVA & it would change my life. -Alexis Ohanian

In 2005 the word #cyberbullying. is invented.

In 2005, over 1 billion people were using the Internet worldwide.

In 2006, Twitter began its initial setup.


In 2006 Time chose YOU (as in you, the global connected hivemind) as Person of the Year. The big bullet point was Google buying YouTube for $1.65 billion, which seemed shockingly high then and seems shockingly low now.

In 2007, #Estonia became one of the world’s first countries to be hit with a cyber attack.

In 2007, reCAPTCHA was launched to help digitize millions of books by having people type CAPTCHAs of words that computers couldn’t decipher. More than a billion people contributed to making physical books available online.

In June, 2007, Gordon Brown is the first UK Prime Minister to use e-mail for daily government business when he enters No10 Downing Street.

In 2012, ISPs and big content providers turned on #IPv6, the next generation #Internet address standard. Most people didn’t notice, but It was a milestone and will enable many future #Web anniversaries

In 2012, Tardar Sauce the Grumpy Cat was top (possibly first) internet meme star.

Below is a great video that describes the birth and current status of the web, 30th Anniversary of the Web: Understanding its Core Values – Open Your Web #1 byMickaël Rémond

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Comments

  1. Paul Plante says

    March 17, 2019 at 12:46 pm

    I actually remember reading about Buck Rogers using the world-wide web to communicate across time and space when I was young, and I also recall Dick Tracy using the web with his wrist communicator back in the 1950s so it sure is a lot older than 30 years.

    Who can forget Buck Rogers operating the controls of a remotely piloted “air ball,” and that was from Amazing Stories in March 1929.

    I think that is where Al Gore took his ideas from when he set about to invent the internet in our times, but since he was just re-creating it, he really does not deserve credit for inventing it, which is just my opinion, of course.

    And the one important thing to an American citizen without financial means or political clout the article does not mention is the VOICE the internet gives us through venues like the Cape Charles Mirror to speak truth to power and to counter the bull**** being fed to us on a daily basis by these hack politicians in Washington, D.C. and their media lackeys such as the compliant Washington Post gossip sheet.

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  2. Tammy says

    March 17, 2019 at 8:15 pm

    Wayne,
    I sure did enjoy this step back (not so far!) in cyber history! You are so clever.

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