Skill Zone News issue 96
At Christmas in 1990, Tim Berners Lee built the first web page at his office in Cern. The page opens with "The WorldWideWeb (W3) is a wide-area hypermedia information retrieval initiative aiming to give universal access to a large universe of documents". Today, 25 years later, around four billion pages can be accessed through the web. That's quite some Christmas present he gave us.
23rd December 2015
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The web has evolved a long way in the 25 years since Tim Berners Lee's pioneering work, but he still takes a hand in steering and safeguarding it.
No word for entrepreneur
George W Bush once told Tony Blair "The problem with the French is that they don't have a word for entrepreneur". But did he really say that? It was in the newspapers, so it must be true.
Politicians in the Internet Age
Republican hopeful Donald Trump seems set to follow in the footsteps of George W Bush and Ronald Reagan in making public pronouncements which you would think make him unelectable.
Music without frontiers
The internet may let us communicate, but music remains a universal language, capable of expressing joy, sorrow, and social ideas. It is both surprising and heart warming to see that the North Korean regime is positively encouraging a western-style pop group.