{"id":798,"date":"2009-03-13T20:48:24","date_gmt":"2009-03-14T01:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/?p=798"},"modified":"2009-03-13T20:48:24","modified_gmt":"2009-03-14T01:48:24","slug":"happy-20th-birthday-mesh-aka-world-wide-web","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/happy-20th-birthday-mesh-aka-world-wide-web\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy 20th Birthday, Mesh (aka World Wide Web)!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><div id=\"attachment_808\" style=\"width: 260px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/2001-europaeum-eighth.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[798]\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-808\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/2001-europaeum-eighth.jpg\" alt=\"Tim Berners-Lee in 2001\" title=\"Tim Berners-Lee in 2001\" width=\"250\" height=\"164\" class=\"size-full wp-image-808\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-808\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tim Berners-Lee in 2001<\/p><\/div><br \/>\n<\/center>It was twenty years ago today (March 13, 1989) that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/People\/Berners-Lee\/\">Tim Berners-Lee<\/a> wrote up his proposal for management at CERN, titled &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/History\/1989\/proposal.html\">Information Management: A Proposal<\/a>&#8220;.  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This document was an attempt to persuade CERN management that a global hypertext system was in CERN&#8217;s interests. Note that the only name I had for it at this time was &#8220;Mesh&#8221; &#8212; I decided on &#8220;World Wide Web&#8221; when writing the code in 1990.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Berners-Lee&#8217;s boss thought his proposal was &#8220;vague but exciting&#8221;.  :)<br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_799\" style=\"width: 420px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/image2.gif\" rel=\"lightbox[798]\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-799\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/image2.gif\" alt=\"A client\/server model for a distributed hypertext system.\" title=\"A client\/server model for a distributed hypertext system.\" width=\"410\" height=\"327\" class=\"size-full wp-image-799\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/image2.gif 410w, https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/image2-300x239.gif 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 410px) 100vw, 410px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-799\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A client\/server model for a distributed hypertext system.<\/p><\/div><\/center><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/image1.gif\" title=\"distributed hypertext system\" \/ rel=\"lightbox[798]\"><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/image3.gif\" title=\"A hypertext gateway allows existing data to be seen in hypertext form by a hypertext browser\"\/ rel=\"lightbox[798]\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was twenty years ago today (March 13, 1989) that Tim Berners-Lee wrote up his proposal for management at CERN, titled &#8220;Information Management: A Proposal&#8220;. This document was an attempt to persuade CERN management that a global hypertext system was in CERN&#8217;s interests. Note that the only name I had for it at this time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,18,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=798"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":814,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798\/revisions\/814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}