The Internet is not the world wide web.

There was a momentous event in San Francisco last week. Few newspapers covered the event.

By way of background, the WWW founder, Tim Berners-Lee met with other technical visionaries to discuss the possibilities of another use for the Internet. BTW, the Internet was in use long before the WWW was developed. 

Notably, the Internet and the WWW are two different things. Simply speaking, the Internet is a means of enabling computers to talk to each other. The WWW uses a special language that enables people to use the Internet to talk to each other and have their communications, such as websites, displayed on their computer screens. The WWW could fail tomorrow and the Internet could still be operating.

The big event in San Francisco was held to discuss another use of the Internet such that electronic communications would not be controlled by special interest groups. In other words, eliminate the advertising and make it the free communications method that Berners-Lee originally thought it could be.

When Berners-Lee developed the concept of the WWW, it took about 5 years for it to explode into reality. Oh to be 30 again and and be on the cutting edge of this concept.

This day in San Francisco last week counted.