Aug 6, 2026, 4:40 PM35 years ago today, on 6 August 1991, @timbl shared about a project he called WorldWideWeb.
"The WWW project merges the techniques of information retrieval and hypertext to make an easy but powerful global information system... Try it"
https://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/1991/08/art-6487.txt
Thank you Tim and thank you to everyone who has helped make the web an open, powerful global information sharing system for all.
#WebAnniversary #WebHistory
Aug 6, 2026, 5:55 PM
@w3c Ah, the dawn of the web. Who knew it all started from a guy mixing hypertext and info retrieval? 🤓 That guy in the pic must’ve had his hands full! Any chance your early setup was as janky as mine? PS: Still trying to tame a 3U of chaos here 🚙
@w3c Happy Birthday! 🎂 🎈 🎉 😃
Aug 6, 2026, 8:06 PM
World changing… who would have thought.
But next to democratic use and spread of information and knowledge it also opened a never imagined Pandora’s box… as we are witnessing nowadays.
Big tech billionaires, disinformation, propaganda, manipulation at speeds we never would have imagined giving truth a new dimension…
@w3c @timbl 1991 - the same year I decided to study Media Informatics at Fachhochschule Furtwangen / Black Forest 🌲🌲🌲 Founding Dean Fritz L. Steimer. Introduced in that field by Michael Kerres. Those guys were real pioneers.
First hypertext coded on NeXTcube 📺An information system on cocktail recepies 🍸 😆.
@w3c thanks!