September 2, 2009 was the fortieth birthday of an invention (do inventions have birthdays?). Well this one sure does…if I can figure out when it was actually invented.
We’ve come a long way since then. The WWW was born 20 years after the first ‘communication’ between two computers. The first email was sent in 1971 while the first free web based email service,
Hotmail,
was launched as late as 1996. Mosaic became the world’s first browser in April, 1993 while Firefox – King of Browserville – was launched only in 2004. Currently of course we’re rather spoiled for choice here with Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safari and definitely last on my list, IE.
So what’s the next big thing for the Internet? Only time will tell…or maybe Google will. (cue ominous music)
P.S: Today is Dr.S.Radhakrishnan’s birthday. So Happy Teachers’ Day everyone!