Today is a significant day in the history of the Internet. On 6 August 1991, exactly 32 years ago, the World Wide Web became publicly available. Its creator, the now internationally known Tim Berners-Lee, posted a short summary of the project on the alt.hypertext newsgroup and gave birth to a new technology which would fundamentally change the world as we knew it.

  • darvocet
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    1 year ago

    If a Time Machine gets invented should this guy be on the same list as baby hitler ti eliminate? Sure the guy wasn’t evil, but his invention has grown evil over time.

    • Hydroel@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      The internet isn’t evil, it helped propagate the age of information towards a global, permanently interconnected network. I’m not sure any invention impacted humanity as greatly as that since the transistor. With that new era, data became a new currency and some companies obviously take badly advantage of that, but I fail to see how the internet might be inherently evil. What motivated that opinion?