THE RISE OF THE WORLD WIDE WEB
It’s a good representation of the early internet as conceived in the mid-Seventies: computers interconnected to others in a network over phone lines, sharing data and displaying text – somewhat dull and also quite different from the World Wide Web. The internet is computers joined by cables; the web is an abstract virtual world of images and sounds built by people. The mistake is so common the web’s creator, Sir Timothy Berners-Lee, dedicates a section online () explaining the difference. It was December 1990 when Sir
