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24 Mar 2009 20 years on

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It was an English man who invented the Web, or the www. as might also know it. Sir Tim Berners Lee was working for CERN, a nuclear research centre in Switzerland when he wrote a set of rules that made it easier to share information on the Internet.

Tim Berners Lee

Many inventions have been made and many have passed by or been surpassed by other inventions. For example, music was played on vinyl records (it still is but some of you may never have seen a record or LP),

Vinyl record playing

this was joined by the audio cassette tape, then the CD ,and now the CD is fading in the the distance as mp3s take over as the current method for playing music and for sales.

The web has lasted 20 years and according to Lee, is still growing and evolving. Lee reckons we will move from PCs to mobile phones for more of our surfing, though lets hope the price comes down, just like the price of mobile phones call have. When I first got a mobile back in 1996, calls cost 75p per minute, whilst now they are bunlde together in big freebies packages.

Whilst we seem to rely on computers and the web for so much research, leisure and communication we should still not forget that the positives of web use are great, there are still dangers of reliance on it and the ever lurking dangers of security and privacy. the more we share our lives on the web, the bigger risk we run of allowing the web to control us and criminals to get one over on us. Our privacy is at risk as companies, like google, try to track our surfing habits so that they can target and bombard us with advertising that matches our surfing, of course this will could also lead to unsolicited advertising being sent to us - this is already happening in the the form of junk email and annoying pop ups.

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