Just a quick post, before my main post of the day to say “Happy Belated Birthday” to the Web. I missed it by a day, damn! I think people generally believe it to be 15 years old on the 6th August because that was apparently when a paper was submitted to newsgroups for the use of the http protocol with an Alpha version of a browser in the same article. I’m pretty sure this post is still available via google and I’ll post a link if I find it! However I also found another article from CNN that said the web was 15 on December 15, 2005 [here].

The only problem is that it’s hard to believe any one story, and after a while you kind of wonder “what’s the point?” I guess it’s purely for nostalgic reasons more than anything else…