John Murrell, Blogger, Good Morning Silicon Valley

And to Think We Might Have Been Surfing the Grand Global Gopher

May 1, 2008 at 12:01 am PT

It could easily have gone differently. Fifteen years ago, the management of the CERN physics lab in Geneva could have decided that this World Wide Web thing that researcher Tim Berners-Lee was working on might have some proprietary value down the road and put it under lock, key and license. But they didn’t. Fifteen years ago today, they put it into the public domain and changed history. Of the many Web milestones we celebrate, that makes this one special.

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