The Internet Turns 21!

August 7, 2012

What would you do without the internet? Yesterday, August 6th, the World Wide Web celebrated its 21st birthday! The internet was invented by Tim Berners-Lee, who proposed the idea while working at the European Organization for Nuclear Research in Switzerland. Berners-Lee planned for the web to be a worldwide network of computers sharing information and it definitely has! Read more about Tim Berners-Lee and the World Wide Web in this Huffington Post article.

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