Twenty years ago, Tim Berners Lee, along with multiple computer scientists, hatched a plan to create an open computer network to keep track of all the particle physics research done at Geneva, Switzerland. The proposal, despite having much potential, took three years of work from Berners Lee and his associates to get the job done. On top of that, it took years of lobbying to convince proffessors, students, and programmers to create more web servers to make use of the network.
Despite being intended just for physicists, the world wide web has now expanded throughout the globe, and has revolutionized communications and the infrastructure of the United States. Despite having problems, such as privacy violation and potential to do harm, it has certainly made are lives very convenient and will probably continue to do so for a long time.
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It's great when inventions intended for the select few, like the car, become available and used by the masses. One thing, I had always heard that the internet was originally invented by the US Army in the 50's, for internal communication. Who knows, but an interesting story.
This is very interesting to me because I had no idea how the web was created. It's cool that it was invented for physicists though. And I agree that computors and the internet have made life very convinient for the most part even though its slightly worrisome that they have the potential to go rogue like in terminator and irobot.
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