Birthday Greetings
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Today, and throughout this year, we should celebrate the Web’s first 25 years. But though the mood is upbeat, we also know we are not done. We have much to do for the Web to reach its full potential. We must continue to defend its core principles and tackle some key challenges. This is for everyone! Watch now ›
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Imagine for a moment life without the web as we know it today - Google, Facebook, Twitter, Wikipedia et al. Unbearable, you may think. Well, prior to March, 1989, the world lived in the “Digital Dark Age”, and obliviously so. The discovery of the life-changing, open and decentralized World Wide Web has substantially changed all that – it has been 25 years of great enlightenment. Yet, as we celebrate, we must remember that nearly three in five people across the world cannot access the Web. Let’s work together to change that. Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day; show him how to catch fish, and you feed him for a lifetime. Provide affordable access and teach him how to use the web, and you empower a generation.
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I wanted to congratulate Tim and his Team, and thank him from the bottom of my heart for creating something so uniquely important: the greatest piece of code ever written. Thank you. Watch now ›
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In a short time, the Web has matured and grown into a worldwide platform for interaction, community, and commerce. Along the way, it has changed the way people collaborate, the way organizations communicate, and it has transformed the world. The Internet Society is pleased to join W3C, the World Wide Web Foundation, and billions of Internet users around the world in celebrating the 25th anniversary of the World Wide Web. Watch now ›
The freedom to talk, to know, to learn, to let us take power and move the world. #web25
— Jimmy Wales (@jimmy_wales) March 6, 2014-
Happy 25th Birthday to the World Wide Web! In the first 25 years since the Web’s invention, we’ve made fantastic progress towards enabling everyone on the planet to communicate and collaborate with anyone and to seek knowledge and creativity without limits, but there is still much to be done. Let’s use this anniversary to celebrate and to look ahead. Together, we can build the Web We Want for the World We Want.
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Over the past 25 years, the World Wide Web has dramatically expanded opportunities for people to share and access information, create new industries, and gain new skills. We must continue working together to ensure all citizens of the world enjoy the benefits of this powerful and profoundly democratic medium and that it continues to flourish as an engine of social and economic progress for the next 25 years and beyond.
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Congratulations to Tim Berners-Lee and the entire Web community on the 25th anniversary of the World Wide Web. The Web is the most transformative innovation of our time and I believe its successes of the last 25 years will only be overshadowed by one thing - its successes of the next 25 years.
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The web is a revolution, its impact is revolutionary and everyone – countries, communities, corporations and citizens - have to adjust and change in the wake of its advance. The world will never be the same.
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I was born a year before the web was founded, so I can only really know the idea of a world without it from history books. For me, the web has come to represent possibility. A medium to share opinions, thoughts, ideas, conversation, information, ideas, possibilities… That gives everyone a chance to whisper into the global consciousness and be heard. A nervous system. A pulse of possibility. I have lived my whole life alongside its development, and indeed can’t imagine a world without it. I’m very excited to see the thirty year old, the forty year old, the 80 year old it becomes: the world that it shapes. And to stake my responsibility in making it, the web we want. Watch now ›
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Happy 25th birthday, World Wide Web! You are among the most amazing of human achievements. Although, knowing you, are you sure you’re not really in your 50s and simply posing as a 25-year-old…?
HappyBirthday ❤️ عيد ميلاد سعيد وعقبال للأبد
誕生日おめでとう! Web が誕生して4半世紀。25歳とは、まだまだ若いね。http://t.co/CRr1ZIAvdd #web25
— 西塚 要 (@__kaname__) March 12, 2014Feliz Aniversário Internet, Happy Birthday World Wide Web, عيد ميلاد سعيد شبكة ويب العالمية, sei que… http://t.co/44mNDeOZY6
— Evandro Evans (@evanscarlos) March 12, 2014Bon anniversaire au Web que j'ai découvert en 1995 devant ma télé ébloui par le potentiel de partage des connaissances ! Merci ! #web25
— Gautier Poupeau (@lespetitescases) March 12, 2014Le Web fête ses 25 ans : Pour Internet Sans Frontières, il doit rester un espace de liberté et de partage #web25 http://t.co/9cyZYHNuHT
— internetlibre (@internetlibre) March 12, 2014Bon anniversaire au Web qui, entré dans ma vie en 1998, y cause depuis tant de belles rencontres humaines <3 #ShareTheLove #web25
— tetue (@tetue) March 12, 2014Grateful beyond words to have been involved with web and @W3C since the beginning. Wonderful community; amazing technology! #web25
— Ann Bassetti (@annbass) March 11, 2014Happy Birthday World Wide Web. We've now enjoyed a quarter of a century of your greatness @w3c #web25 http://t.co/FmlcUPI9G5
— Exact Abacus (@ExactAbacusLtd) March 12, 2014The Web turns 25. Thanks @timberners_lee and @w3c for keeping it open for all! http://t.co/vppWH4Cs6u #web25
— Patrick Feng (@ProfessorFeng) March 14, 2014Happy Birthday to the Web! Thank you for helping government work for the people, by the people in the 21st century. #web25
— Jennifer Pahlka (@pahlkadot) March 17, 2014Happy 25th birthday to the thing that's given me a career. #Web25
— Dom (@DominicNeagle) March 12, 2014The World Wide Web is 25 years old today. My perspective of the world would certainly be different without it. Thanks @Web25
— Laura Haynes (@LauraHaynesPR) March 12, 2014So much has changed and it's just the beginning: Happy Birthday Web! #Web25 @Web25 http://t.co/uycu9Sa6qe
— Pedro Silva (@pedromasilva) March 12, 2014Happy birthday to the World Wide Web @Web25! It has spurred an incalculable number of careers, including mine. http://t.co/V7ElFdBg60 #web25
— Ming Chow (@0xmchow) March 12, 2014Happy Birthday Web! #web25. Gracias muchas gracias @timberners_lee. Sin la web no existiría mi futuro, y hoy ya lo es todo.
— Círculo Núbetton B2B (@Nubetton) March 12, 2014Muy Feliz cumpleaños Happy Birthday Web! #web25. Pues nos permite soñar con un mejor futuro.
— Telework Colombia (@TeleworkiS) March 12, 2014For bringing power to the people, research to our fingertips, & allowing collaborations to span worldwide: well wishes #Web25
— Kevin J Drieberg (@KevinJDrieberg) March 12, 2014Happy Birthday WWW #web25 - You've changed my life&career. I'm thankful for online communities, digital work & the crazy beautiful library
— HeatherLeson (@HeatherLeson) March 12, 2014What would be our lives without the Web? Happy birthday WWW! #web25
— Tristan Nitot (@nitot) March 12, 2014Happy Birthday to the World Wide Web! #web25 If it wasn't for you, I would not know so much about cats!
— sarisea (@sarisea) March 12, 2014#web25 25 años aprovechando todos los recursos que brinda Internet y deseando que las futuras generaciones la aprovechen también
— ARMANDO LÓPEZ SIERRA (@ARJALOSIE) March 11, 2014Hoy festejamos los 25 años de la web - libre, abierta y neutra- \o/ Por muchos más años de libertad, conocimiento e innovación!! #web25
— Juan Manuel (@jm_casanueva) March 12, 2014-
“Congrats to WWW! May this 25th anniversary be a reminder that internet
must be clear and free for us to speak our minds and change the world!
There is a growing awareness of the need to protect rights in the internet
and the World Wide Web Foundation is one of the responsible organizations
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We celebrate the 25 anniversary of one single idea that is keeping us
together: the WWW. This open source and liberating technology has changed
the way everyone lives in the current world, for better. Let’s keep it
free, lets keep it open, let’s keep it awesome, lets keep it ours. Happy Birthday to the Web! , u made a better life for humanity thanks :)) #web25 http://t.co/ibsGEZyMVm cc @web25 & @w3c
— Amine Hajji ⎝⏠⏝⏠⎠ ® (@_m4tux) March 12, 2014I came into a career and dear friends I love thanks to the World Wide Web. Thanks again for this gift @timberners_lee @cern & others! #web25
— Kimberly Blessing (@obiwankimberly) March 12, 2014A good way to celebrate #web25 would be to explain around us how its openness is fruitful, so people realize the need to keep it open
— Clochix (@clochix) March 12, 2014Happy Birthday Web! Otherwise I would not have a profession. #web25
— Jaco Bruwer (@onlinebaas) March 17, 2014First memories of the web: 1999, my very first Yahoo email; GeoCities, Netscape, webpage using MS FrontPage. Happy 25th Birthday Web! #web25
— Jonathan Manas (@athanph) March 11, 2014Happy Birthday WWW. We love you. How you will continue to change and enrich our lives. Story is ours for the making #web25
— Paul Lazarra (@PaulLazarra) March 16, 2014La web me a cambiado la vida de manera que mis estudios y trabajo dependen de ella. #inf115 #web25
— Juan Batalla (@JuanMick3y) March 17, 2014Como eternos estudiantes hace que podamos seguir aprendiendo de forma divertida e interesante #web25 #inf115
— Cristina Mojica (@CristiDelMar) March 19, 2014#web25 Happy 25th to @Web25 ! You changed the world! Big Love :* "This is for everyone" ❤️* @timberners_lee http://t.co/ZrmxaKV2Sj
— Ibtihal Ibrahim (@_beto21) March 19, 2014-
I am a retired professor with advanced cancer living in a nursing home. Because of the wwweb, my life is now full of fascinating learning, discussion with people around the world, access to my children, grandchildren and family, information and contacts with other cancer professionals and patients, in short my life is full and productive. .... My nursing home gives me free internet. I may not be able to continue this remarkable adventure of internet travel if continued use becomes unaffordable. .... Also, I have a tumor on my eyebrow which makes reading for long periods difficult. So please find solutions to free accessibility for the web. It makes such a difference in the lives of handicapped people, children, and people with limited opportunities.
Happy 25th Web! Our birthday wish for you: next 2 billion users online before your 30th #web25
— Raj Shah (@rajshah) March 14, 2014Few things have changed our world for better more than the WWW. Thanks Sir @TimBerners_Lee & here's to another 25 #Web25
— Kevin Spacey (@KevinSpacey) March 14, 201412 mars 2014 : le web a 25 ans. Il faut maintenir cette belle dynamique collective, fondée sur l'ouverture et la liberté d'innover ! #web25
— Fleur Pellerin (@fleurpellerin) March 12, 2014-
The web is an amazing infrastructure: open, infinitely adaptable, and generating a positive impact to achieve every human development goal we can think of. It is time for country to embrace the web, by means of the law and the protection of civil liberties, making sure it will continue to be inclusive and full of opportunities.
**Ed Note: Ronaldo Lemos is a director of the Institute for Technology & Society in Rio de Janeiro, a lawyer, and member of the Mozilla board
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Happy 25th Birthday Web! You don’t look a day over 18. Got some ID?
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Here is celebrating humankind’s best invention that offers an unprecedented opportunity to learn, connect and dream to be free, no matter where you are!
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Happy 25th year to our beloved World Wide Web. We are grateful that you pave the way to educate and empower citizens. We commit to protecting you to maintain your being free and open. Padayon!
*Padayon means continue in Philippine local dialect
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Today is an opportunity to celebrate the transformative impact of the web on our lives. This anniversary is also an historic moment to reflect on the challenges that we currently face in securing an open internet, and to encourage us to continue the struggle to ensure a diverse, innovative, and empowering web regardless of who we are or where we live. Let us redouble our efforts to defend and extend the digital rights of users worldwide and celebrate the possibilities for the next generations who are yet to join us online
The World Wide Web turns 25. Here's what Yale's "front door" looked like in 1996. #Web25 pic.twitter.com/PLGYmC4pmQ
— Yale University (@Yale) March 12, 2014@southbankcentre Excellent! but.... *whispers* the date is wrong at the bottom of that post ;)
— Mike Brondbjerg (@mikebrondbjerg) March 12, 2014Happy 25th Birthday the WORLD WIDE WEB #WEB25 pic.twitter.com/qsWZOsb1wW
— MS Small Business (@MicrosoftSB) March 12, 2014Infographic: Celebrating 25 years of the world wide web http://t.co/hW2YcDFffX #web25
— The Drum (@TheDrum) March 12, 2014Today is the 25th anniversary of the World Wide Web. What is its potential in the next 25 years? http://t.co/Zla01l6HKF #web25
— Harvard University (@Harvard) March 12, 2014-
For the last 25 years the Web has been key in connecting people, building communities, and transforming the economy and how the world does business today. We’re proud to have been part of it’s growth and success and look forward to the use of our network to provide a high speed, safe, and reliable Internet for the next 25 years and beyond!
.@web25 Happy Birthday!. We're proud to support the future of the Web as a @w3c member #Web25
— Bloomberg LP (@Bloomberg) March 12, 2014-
Happy birthday World Wide Web!
In the 2 and a half decades since, you have forever changed the way we communicate, access and share information.As the web continues to provide space for open innovation, new ways of connecting people, conducting business, engaging in political, and social processes, it is critical that it remains open, accessible and free so that we can continue to unlock its still untapped potential in order to promote and increase Africa’s presence on the web.
Keeping the Web open & free is like keeping society open & free. Freedom isn't "free." It takes work and struggle. #web25 #netfreedom
— Rebecca MacKinnon (@rmack) March 12, 2014I <3 The WWW, open and free. Happy 25th Birthday 2U! #web25
— Rebecca Malamud (@webchickbot) March 12, 2014-
Happy 25th birthday, World Wide Web! In a relatively short period of time, the Internet has completely transformed how men and women around the world communicate, access information and many important services and share the events that are shaping their lives. Mobile is playing an instrumental role in bringing the benefits of the Internet to billions of people around the world – for many, mobile will be the only way they can access the Internet – and we’re excited to see what the next 25 years will bring.
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We are all born creative. Within us all is the power to make a difference through our imagination and creativity. The web connects the world to spread information, knowledge and ideas that can make the world a better place. We’re looking forward to continue working with the W3C to eliminate the friction in the creative process, to make the web more expressive and to meet the challenges of the next twenty-five years.
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The Web is becoming an essential platform for human rights, free expression and movements to democratize and bring social justice across the globe. As we celebrate its 25 years of success today, we must also recognize how harmful governmental control and corporate consolidation can undermine the web’s future. Now is the time to use the Internet as a tool to galvanize public support to preserve the web’s potential to bolster human rights and justice.
Grateful to sir @timberners_lee on #web25 for giving us @freepress something to fight for -- a free, open and neutral Web for all!
— Craig Aaron (@notaaroncraig) March 12, 201425 years of the Web-a spectacular tool for providing opportunity for all. We must keep the web open, interoperable and ours! #web25
— MitchellBaker (@MitchellBaker) March 12, 2014Happy Birthday World Wide Web! Here’s to 25 more years of camaraderie and code. http://t.co/puVLaV8qGf @timberners_lee, #Web25
— Code for America (@codeforamerica) March 12, 2014Happy birthday World Wide Web. What do you think the next 25 years hold? I hope we’ll have wifi on the moon! http://t.co/gcZwPAyOep
— Richard Branson (@richardbranson) March 12, 2014-
The values of the Web are the best of us – open, universal, accessible. We must keep those values alive. Thank you @timberners_lee #web25
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The free and open internet is threatened by surveillance and censorship. We should work together to protect one of the greatest creations in human history: the web, built upon the principles of a decentralized, free and open internet.
We should strive to improve and to create an even more open space for every person to use their voice, to ensure that every person may read and learn, and that together we may grow and learn in peace.
The internet and the web alone do not empower people; our communication creations may also be used to control, to enslave, to harm, to destroy - we should improve the technology to protect people from those who will seek to exploit our desire to connect. When we are free from surveillance and censorship, we will be free to express ourselves in a way that we have never seen in the history of humanity.
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The world wide web is so integral to the internet of today that that it’s strange to think back to a time 25 years ago when the web and the internet were not part of our everyday lives. The www took off because of its instant user appeal, but also because it’s open and free. From those early beginnings with Sir Tim and his colleagues, no one could have imagined how our journey with the web would truly transform how we live, work and connect with each other.
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The WEB has transformed the world into a better place over the past 25 years. It will change more in the future. These technologies and W3C nourish our products for better growth prospects, helping us to enrich people’s life through communication. We are willing to bring more mobile web related products and services. Wishing WEB and W3C a splendid birthday and life ahead. Keep those amazing WEB technologies coming!!!
It's truly amazing how a Geek with Vision and Perseverance can change the world. Congratulations @timberners_lee on #Web25
— Arthur Barstow (@afbarstow) March 12, 2014PM: Happy 25th birthday to the world wide web – a truly great British invention from @timberners_lee #web25
— UK Prime Minister (@Number10gov) March 12, 2014Happy 25th birthday to the World Wide Web! #Web25
— Firefox (@firefox) March 12, 2014Happy Birthday to the World Wide Web! We're looking forward to celebrating the www evolution in #digitalrevolution this Summer #web25
— Barbican Centre (@BarbicanCentre) March 12, 2014Happy 25th birthday to the web...an invention for everyone by @royalsociety Fellow @timberners_lee #web25
— The Royal Society (@royalsociety) March 12, 2014Celebrating 25 years of the WWW #web25 - congrats to all involved - we must do more to enable the poorest to benefit pic.twitter.com/QYc9PjSs0h
— Tim Unwin (@TimUnwin) March 12, 2014#Web25 The WWW was conceived 25 years ago in 1989; commercial Internet services were just coming online. Happy 25th birthday!
— vinton g cerf (@vgcerf) March 12, 2014Happy 25th Birthday to the WWW! @timberners_lee has made it easier for us to connect with people in the UK and the Commonwealth #Web25
— BritishMonarchy (@BritishMonarchy) March 12, 2014-
For 25 years the world wide web has been a platform for change and a breeding ground for new ideas. It’s a place that knows no borders and the natural home of open, unlimited innovation, and a source of hope and inspiration for those in Europe and across the world. I hope that continues long into the future.
It takes someone special to enable billions of people to build something, for everyone. Thank you @timberners_lee. #web25
— Jeni Tennison (@JeniT) March 12, 2014Vision of @timberners_lee for the WWW as inspiring today as it was 25 y ago: http://t.co/sa3ik7jKkF #web25
— Anja Kovacs (@anjakovacs) March 12, 2014-
When I turned 25, I’d just discovered the power of the Web and how it would change the future - education, business, communication and more. As the Web turns 25 today, I’m more worried than excited. I’m worried that this life-changing platform is under threat because of wrong policy choices by governments seeking to reduce Internet Freedom. I hope today presents an opportunity for all stakeholders to commit to a powerful Web that improves socio-economic opportunities, and not one where citizens across the world are afraid instead of being innovative.
25 years ago, students were doing homework with _paper_ incomplete and very short encyclopaedias! #web25
— Stéphane Bortzmeyer (@bortzmeyer) March 12, 2014Bon anniversaire au Web, 25 ans aujourd'hui ! http://t.co/XanKWIFHWV #web25 (et merci à @timberners_lee)
— OpenWebGroup (@openwebgroup) March 12, 2014Happy 25th to WWW ! Le 12 mars 1989, @timberners_lee allait donner naissance au Web. http://t.co/yRSxYny28p #web25 via @interstices_eu
— Inria (@Inria) March 12, 2014Happy Birthday Web! Demonstrating the power of open standards and a global Internet for 25 years. http://t.co/2Ta0VvZtpD #web25
— @IETF (@ietf) March 12, 2014Happy birthday, @Web25! Celebrate + protect the open web by visiting http://t.co/fDowMShFpL #web25
— Twitter (@twitter) March 12, 2014Happy Birthday Web! #web25 Webができて25周年だそうです。今となっては無かった時代が考えられませんね。これからインターネットがどのようになっていくのか、楽しみです。@Web25 http://t.co/IqI9qVnCVG
— TwitterJP (@TwitterJP) March 12, 2014We celebrate 25 Years of the Web with the rest of the world today. Happy birthday, Web! #web25 @Web25 http://t.co/faYIv7L386
— Opera (@opera) March 12, 2014Bon anniversaire au Web que j'ai découvert en 1995 devant ma télé ébloui par le potentiel de partage des connaissances ! Merci ! #web25
— Gautier Poupeau (@lespetitescases) March 12, 2014The Web is for everyone. It is made by its users, and it belongs to all of us equally. Follow @webwewant @Web25 @webfoundation #Web25
— Sarah Jackson (@sajarina) March 12, 2014@apnic thank you!
— Web At 25 (@Web25) March 12, 2014
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