March 13, 1989 was the day when Tim Berners-Lee from England proposed an universal linked information system to exchange documents which gave birth to what we better know as the World Wide Web (WWW). The http, URLs, browser and everything related to web was a result of his frustration because of the incompatibility to share research material between institutions.
Fast forward today, Tim is busy promoting the next step of WWW, which is the Semantic Web. According to Wikipedia, the Semantic Web is an evolving extension of the World Wide Web in which the semantics of information and services on the web is defined, making it possible for the web to understand and satisfy the requests of people and machines to use the web content.
[Via BoingBoing]
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