You may have seen that today was the twenty-fifth birthday of the World Wide Web. That's quite an anniversary. And I've been using it for twenty-one of those years. Wait, that means I've lived longer with the Internet than without. Wow, I think that makes me one of those digital natives who can't imagine a world without being connected 24/7.
And speaking of old people trying to look comfortable with technology, I've spent all day listening to news readers misstating that the Internet is twenty-five today. I'd like to write a long diatribe about how incorrect that is, except that, well, I can't be bothered. I tired of correcting people's misconceptions about the Internet around the seventh of my years on the web. And it would kind of defeat the purpose of the web. Instead I'll just link to someone else's explanation of what the difference is. I'll just add that the way technology is developing, some people are saying that the web is dead. I don't really buy it: a universal flexible way of presenting information is too useful to disappear just because there's an app for everything.
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