The BBC has done a couple of new items about the World Wide Web reaching its 15th birthday. In the first, Sir Tim Berners-Lee says the Web is "still in its infancy". The story also quotes Robert Cailliau, who worked on the early development at Cern, and both of them feature in a round-up: Luminaries look to the future web. This has short statements from 10 people, including publisher Tim O'Reilly (who didn't coin the term Web 2.0), Mitchell Baker from Mozilla, and uberblogger/Twitterer Robert Scoble.
The University of Southampton gets prominent billing. This is presumably connected with the fact that Sir Tim occupies a Chair of Computer Science at the University of Southampton's School of Electronics and Computer Science.
Incidentally, this is not the first time the BBC has celebrated the Web's 15th birthday. The last time it did it was in August 2006, with How the web went world wide. This said:
One key date is 6 August 1991 -- the day on which links to the fledgling computer code for the www were put on the alt.hypertext discussion group so others could download it and play with it.
We look forward to helping the BBC celebrate more Web's 15th birthday stories in the future.
