by Vince Horiuchi, Salt Lake Tribune
Twenty years ago, Berners-Lee, a British computer scientist at Geneva’s CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, established the first communication link between a server and an HTTP client. Since he’s widely credited with inventing the Web, Berners-Lee is the one who deserves praise whenever you surf the Web for the hottest viral video or for breaking news about Lindsay Lohan’s latest faux pas. Just search for his name on Wikipedia. You can thank him for the ability to do that, too. “It [the Web] enables me to do things that I otherwise wouldn’t be able to do,” said Martin Berzins, director of the University of Utah’s School of Computing. “I can read newspapers all over the world. I can find books on music that would be difficult to find. I can learn what people think about current events.” Berners-Lee’s concept of linking computers resulted in a new modern-day communication medium as significant and as ubiquitous as the telephone or television and has opened up vast channels of global information to everyday people.
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