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World-Wide-Web Celebrates Twentieth Birthday 6 August 2011
(CBS/What's Trending) - Happy birthday Web! Twenty years ago on August 6, 1991, Tim Berners-Lee presented a project for organizing information in what later became the World Wide Web. Now as the Internet turns twenty we are giving it a big thank you for revolutionizing the world as we know it.Sir Tim Berners-Lee is the man who has changed the world more than anyone else in the past hundred years. He may be a mild-mannered academic who lives modestly in Boston, but as the inventor of the World Wide Web he is also a revolutionary. Along with Galileo, William Caxton and Sir Isaac Newton, he is a scientist who has altered the way people think as well as the way they live.There have been some definite downsides to the Web such as a reduction in privacy and Internet predation, but the good has far outweighed the bad. Online agencies have created millions of jobs across the globe, opened people up to different cultures and ideas and created a transparency in terms of politics that has never quite been achieved in the past.
Through social, economic and political actions online the world has become an entirely different sphere than what it was 20 years ago. News travels faster than ever, every single person with access to the Internet has a voice to vent frustration or foster a following and social interactions have become more varied and far reaching.The Web has changed the way people think and revolutionized the world as we know in a short twenty years. From clunky modems to Smart phones it has come a long way, the only question is how far will it continue to evolve in the next twenty years? Tim Berners-Lee was born in London, England, on 8 June 1955, the son of Conway Berners-Lee and Mary Lee Woods. He attended Sheen Mount primary school, and then went on to Emanuel School in London, from 1969 to 1973. He studied at The Queen's College, Oxford, from 1973 to 1976, where he received a first-class degree in Physics. While being an independent contractor at CERN from June to December 1980, Berners-Lee proposed a project based on the concept of hypertext, to facilitate sharing and updating information among researchers. While there, he built a prototype system named ENQUIRE. After leaving CERN in 1980, he went to work at John Poole's Image Computer Systems, Ltd, in Bournemouth, England. The project he worked on was a real-time remote procedure call which gave him experience in computer networking. In 1984 he returned to CERN as a fellow. In 2004, Berners-Lee was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for his pioneering work. In April 2009, he was elected as a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences, based in Washington, D.C.
Sir Tim's chart is on the left. As I don't have his t.o.b. I have used noon. It is not very difficult to spot the signs of the inventor in this chart. Firstly, the Sun in Gemini and its ruler Mercury on the Sun/Mars midpoint suggests that this person is a communicator who expresses himself through his various ideas and concepts. The flowing aspects from Mercury to Pluto and Neptune show his ability to understand obscure subjects and to communicate these in a manner that can be easily understood. Secondly, one would expect Uranus to be strong in the chart of an invention or inventor and here it is conjunct Jupiter but square Neptune. The Jupiter-Uranus conjunction quite clearly says 'going beyond, a scientific discovery that would benefit the global community'. However, the square aspect from Neptune may have created a few (dis)-illusions at first. The sextile and quincunx aspects from Venus in Taurus would have been able to provide some necessary grounding here.
On the 6th August 1991, (see chart on the right) the day the World Wide Web was launched, there was a conjunction of Uranus and Neptune in Capricorn making flowing aspects to Pluto in Scorpio and Mercury, Venus and Mars in Virgo, indicating the new technology that is being communicated which is likely to transform information and education through precise input of detail.Pluto squares the Sun/Jupiter midpoint and indicates the large-scale global financial benefits that are likely to be made with this invention. But as it is a square aspect it can also be used for dishonest gains. L.S.
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