Apparently it's the Web's 15th birthday today, and the BBC has an aritcle about the early days, plus a Flash timeline. This is clever because it uses sideways scrolling: this means you can see much less information than a boring old vertical timeline, so it's both harder to read and less useful. But on the good side, Flash 9 seems so flaky that it will may well crash your browser window before this becomes annoying.
What is particularly cringeworthy about such events is the number of people who will say it is the 15th anniversary of the Internet, rather than the Web. In the UK, Classic FM was doing it last night. But it's a mistake that is not entirely unknown in The Guardian....
