The Web is 20 Years old Today

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53 points·canistr··7 comments

I have a suggestion. We have a lot of citations of Techcrunch articles (and for good reason). For events like these, however, could we look for better quality articles and submit those? (I know someone else could. But this is just so that we reduce the barrage of submissions.)

Some of the other articles are:

http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2011/08/world-wide-web-20-years...

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/networking/20-years-of-the-web/133...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14430076

I think the coverage on TNW is better than that of TechCrunch's: 20 years ago today, the World Wide Web opened to the public http://tnw.co/piYgdv

What will the Web be like in 20 years? http://tnw.co/r6jnd3

Favorite comment: "You're supposed to cover technology, for god's sake. Know the difference between the Web and the Internet."

(Apparently the original title was 'The Internet is 20...')

Did anybody else catch the stab at TC parent company AOL? Classy.

Am I the only one that actually gets a bit annoyed by AOL digs on TC? (Not that I regularly read it, so perhaps this is fairly rare since the huge number that came straight after the acquisition.)

They don't read as actual digs, they read as "by the way readers, you remember that we're not corporate whores right? well, just in case, here's an AOL joke that they said they didn't care about us making".

Is that a big deal? I've laughed at plenty of jokes the Simpsons have thrown at Rupert Murdoch and FOX.

I remember that! I was working at DEC at that time happily browsing internet news.

When others started to use Web Browsers, I dismissed that all as "pretty pictures, the fad will go away". Guess I was wrong :)

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