&21/ 16 Years and 3 Days - A Teenager Has Seen a Lot

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3 days ago the World Wide Web turned 16. A teenager that has seen a lot.

• Born on a NeXT machine at a time when that was Steve Jobs' next project.
• Living amongst particle physicists as a baby.
• Being pushed back and forth during her childhood when the Browser wars added new features instead of fixing bugs.
• Abused as an advertising print digital copy invisible table pixel trick layout medium for over 10 years now.
• Fortunately growing up from a pure marketing instrument to a CSS-based teen re-enabling user generated content labeled by TIm O'Reilly as Web 2.0
• Web 3.0 and Web4 on the horizon.

I fell in love with you when you were four.

Congratulations WWW - sorry I missed your birthday 3 days ago - IOU a lot, Kind Regards, Harald