Happy Birthday, Web

This weekend (through the Christmas holiday, depending on how you interpret it) marks the 15th birthday of the World Wide Web. Both the concept of hypertext and the Internet had been around for a long time, but on November 12th, 1990 Tim Berners-Lee wrote a formal proposal for the World Wide Web to his employers at the CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) particle physics lab. On November 13th he wrote the first draft of a web page.

During the Christmas holiday of that year, Sir Tim (he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth in 2004) built all of the tools necessary for a working web, including a web server and a web browser. In August of 1991 a web server at CERN was put on the Internet.

The majority of teen Internet users create, remix or share content online

Fully half of all teens, and 57 percent of teens who use the Internet, could be considered Content Creators, according to a survey by the Pew Internet & American Life Project. Some interesting findings from their survey include:

• 33 percent of online teens share their own creative content online, such as artwork, photos, stories or videos.
• 32 percent say that they have created or worked on webpages or blogs for others, including groups they belong to, friends or school assignments.
• 22 percent report keeping their own personal webpage.
• 19 percent of online teens keep a blog, and 38 percent of online teens read blogs.
• 19 percent of Internet-using teens say they remix content they find online into their own artistic creations.

Pew Charitable Trusts' Press Release
Full Report - Teen Content Creators and Consumers