Isn’t it fascinating that I can also set up my own website and blog for free…:-) Now, do all you bloggers and Internet users in general know how this great technological invention called the WWW (in other words World Wide Web) started? Do you know it’s history? I bet some of you have no ideas. Well, if you are in Ghana then you are fortunate because the man at the center of the development of the WWW will be right here and you will have a rare opportunity to see one of the greatest living geniuses of our time. His name is Sir Timothy John “Tim” Berners-Lee, founder of WWW.
The wikipedia describes him as follows;
He is a British engineer and computer scientist and MIT professor credited with inventing the World Wide Web, making the first proposal for it in March 1989. On 25 December 1990, with the help of Robert Cailliau and a young student staff at CERN, he implemented the first successful communication between an HTTP client and server via the Internet. In 2007, he was ranked Joint First, alongside Albert Hofmann, in The Telegraph’s list of 100 greatest living geniuses. Berners-Lee is the director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which oversees the Web’s continued development. He is also the founder of the World Wide Web Foundation, and is a senior researcher and holder of the 3Com Founders Chair at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL).
The Kofi Annan ICT Center will be filled to capacity at 2:00pm on Monday 21st September, 2009 with many experts from the Internet Community in Ghana. I will be there to see him and possibly take a picture shot with him:-). Let me know if you would be there, so that I can look out for you too.
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