Happy (almost) 30th birthday to the World Wide Web. Its berth set the stage for the tech upheaval that has dramatically altered the way the world operates. In many ways, the revolution is still raging.
On April 30,1993, British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee made a decision that would change the world: he gave free access to a new software protocol he recently invented.
Berners-Lee introduced the World Wide Web in 1989, calling it “an idea of linked information systems.” The web made it easier for academics and researchers to share information which appeared to be its initial objective. The web became big, fast mainly because Berners-Lee had “a profound insight” about how the technology should be used and shared with the world, said Joe White, the U.K.'s technology envoy to the U.S. said.
The evolution sparked by the web “fundamentally remade the global economy, society and politics,” said Robert Siegel, a management lecturer at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. It unleashed a new wave of entrepreneurship that gave birth to companies that remain dominant today, led by Amazon, Google, Salesforce and Facebook.
Mattias Söderhielm was a visiting graduate student from Sweden when he consulted Saffo, the renowned Silicon Valley forecaster, about his master’s thesis. His plan had been to do a paper on the evolution of telecom networks. Saffo had another idea. Siegel said that while there have been “major cataclysms every decade for the last a hundred and twenty plus years – wars, economic wobbling, etc.,” what makes the era since the introduction of the web unique is it “has been driven by computers and connectivity.”
Söderhielm compares what happened with the web to the invention of the telegraph which people expected “will stop all wars because we can have instant communication and there need be no misunderstandings anymore between countries and peace will reign supreme.”
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