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To quote the Grateful Dead’s song “Truckin”, What a long strange trip it’s been. I guess it’s not completely accurate in this case, but it seems appropo…

“Today marks the 16th anniversary of the World Wide Web. According to the timeline on the W3.org site: ‘The first web page [was] http://nxoc01.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html. Unfortunately CERN no longer supports the historical site. Note from this era too, the least recently modified web page we know of, last changed Tue, 13 Nov 1990 15:17:00 GMT (though the URI changed.)’ A lot has happened in 16 years and this little ‘baby’ has grown into quite the teenager.”

Slashdot | The Web Is 16 Today

I can’t believe it’s only been 16 years since the first pieces of hypertext have graced the Web. In some ways it feels like a lifetime (at least most of mine) but at the same time it’s a relative blip on the radar screen of history. If we have come this far in a relatively short period of time, I can’t wait to see what the future holds.I’d love to know what others think about this…

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