> "Thirty years ago, Tim Berners-Lee and CERN gave the world a gift..."
The only reason the decision seems important now, is if you think the internet could of never been developed without the all-powerful minds of "Tim Berners-Lee and CERN"...
As computers got faster an nations and companies wanted to communicate between computers. It seems inevitable that the only way to communicate with computers is was a decentralised open and free network...
If it wasn't CERN, someone else would have built the internet...
Look at the current internet landscape- most users interact, find, and share content through the walled gardens of social networks. I don't think "decentralized open and free" networks are at all inevitable. To me those characteristics are shrinking, not growing.
Lets be glad it was someone with the foresight to imagine it as an open protocol from the beginning though. Interoperable and free to use things around it.
The fact that they didn't try to monetize the underlying tech is almost a miracle.
The only reason the decision seems important now, is if you think the internet could of never been developed without the all-powerful minds of "Tim Berners-Lee and CERN"...
As computers got faster an nations and companies wanted to communicate between computers. It seems inevitable that the only way to communicate with computers is was a decentralised open and free network...
If it wasn't CERN, someone else would have built the internet...