This past August 7, 2007 was an largely uneventful day but it was also a special day.

16 years ago this past August 7th in 1991 Doctor Tim Berners-Lee sent the first message via the world wide web (www).

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Doctor Tim Berners-Lee, father of the www

Doctor Lee is acknowledged as the father of the world wide web. For his accomplishment he was awarded the Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire making him “Sir Tim Berners-Lee”.

Here’s a portion of the very first message sent across the www.

“The WWW project merges the techniques of information retrieval and hypertext to  make an easy but powerful global information system.

The project started with the philosophy that much academic information should  
be freely available to anyone. It aims to allow information sharing within  
internationally dispersed teams, and the dissemination of information by  
support groups.”

Apparently smart runs in Doctor Lee’s family, both his mother and father were mathematicians and worked on the team that built one of the world’s first computers.

While working at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, Doctor Lee saw an opportunity to marry the then cumbersome Internet to TCP and DNS ideas and in his words: “ta-da! - the World Wide Web.”

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