Google has dedicated its home page Doodle to the World Wide Web to mark the technology’s 30th anniversary. The animated illustration shows a 1980s-style computer – similar to the NeXT Cube Tim Berners-Lee used to create the online application which has since grown to encompass nearly two billion websites. Tim Berners-Lee (Philip Toscano/PA)A Google post accompanying the Doodle said: “By 1991, the external Web servers were up and running. “The Web would soon revolutionise life as we know it, ushering in the information age. “The fight for the web is one of the most important causes of our time,” Sir Tim said.

Source: Irish Examiner March 12, 2019 10:41 UTC