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> In 1980’s Tim Berners-Lee realized that the documents are hard to find at CERN, so he started imagining a system of interconnected documents that would suppos
by RMPR 6y ago
> In 1980’s Tim Berners-Lee realized that the documents are hard to find at CERN, so he started imagining a system of interconnected documents that would supposedly solve this thorny problem for good. Nowadays we know this invention as the internet.
> Despite 40 years of improvements and the internet becoming a part of our daily life, we still face the same problems. You can talk to another person half way across the world while watching a funny cat videos, but somehow we still struggle with finding the important project documents
TIL. But I think the author meant the Web[0]. Iirc internet originates from ARPA.
0: https://home.cern/science/computing/birth-web https://home.cern/science/computing/birth-web
- petepete 6y agoTo be honest, most normal people call the web the internet. It's the only bit most people see.