Web Turns Fifteen (again?) - This Post - External Link

2006-August-06

Depending which point of view you prefer, the World Wide Web either is or isn't quietly celebrating its 15th birthday.

As per the Wikipedia article on the web, on 6 August 1991 Tim Berners-Lee "posted a short summary of the World Wide Web project on the alt.hypertext newsgroup. This date also marked the debut of the Web as a publicly available service on the Internet."

However, as a medium, the web was developed over a period, and others have celebrated other birthdays for it. Some are listed below.
6 August 1991

The following are some of the sites celebrating 6 August as the 15th birthday of the web:

* BBC News - How the Web went Worldwide
* The Guardian - Happy 15th birthday, World Wide Web

More from the BBC:

* Fifteen years of the web
* BBC News Readers Panel

November 2005

* The Financial Times
* Ars Technica
* OS News

The Ars article had me confused for a little while when researching his post, because of the American formating of the date. It also seems to be the basis of a lot of the subsequent reports.
Other Dates

December 2005 - CNN - this seems to be just a late report based on the Nov 2005 date. MacWorld also reported in December 2005.

I also found a reference from December 2004 - I've not yet done any digging to see the basis for that date.