How appropriate it would have been if the next important event had been the launch of Clesh precisely 15 years later. How surprised Tim must be to know that it is now possible to do video editing via a web browser.
Tim and Stephen: the true pioneers of the Internet
Happy Birthday Browser
15 years old
By Nick Farrell: Monday 26 December 2005, 09:51
THE INTERNET browser turned 15 on Sunday.
Tim Berners-Lee wrote the first Web client, or browser editor, on a NeXT computer called WorldWide Web in 1990 with the aim of building a creative tool that would allow people to use the Internet.
He apparently finished the code on Christmas Day, 1990 while all his associates were feasting on mince pies and getting into the port. He released the program to a number of much sobered up people at CERN in 1991.
Later that year they started to port WorldWideWibble from NeXT to the bit more common C language and created the new browser libwww and the whole lot took off.