Happy 25th Birthday to the World Wide Web!

1991 entry: "Researchers rig up a live shot of a coffee pot http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/coffee/qsf/coffee.html so they could tell from their computer screens when a fresh pot had been brewed. Later connected to the World Wide Web http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/coffee/qsf/timeline.html , it becomes the first webcam."

"Since its founding in 1989, the World Wide Web has touched the lives of billions of people around the world and fundamentally changed how we connect with others, the nature of our work, how we discover and share news and new ideas, how we entertain ourselves and how communities form and function."

From the Pew Research Internet Project timeline (http://www.pewinternet.org/2014/03/11/world-wide-web-timeline/)

Many thanks to Diane Papineau for sharing this.