Monday was the 25th anniversary of the World Wide Web becoming open to the public. It’s hard to believe that it has been 25 years, right?
In some ways it seems like it’s part of new-age technology. In others, it is impossible to remember life before immediate access, buying living room furniture on your phone and bellyaching about WiFi access.
Jay GreesonOn that April Friday in 1993, CERN, the short name for the European Organization for Nuclear Research, released the codes to the public. It made it available to everyone and offered endless possibilities of technology to us.
It begs a very different business question. If CERN had kept what was the original pathway that is the internet, as a company CERN would make Facebook look like Floyd’s Barbershop.
And it’s hard to wonder if there’s a bigger double-sided question out there than are we better off for it?