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Hi, it's Jan Kearney at My Local Business Online and today is day 8 I think of Bonnie
Gean's Video Blogging Challenge. Today is also a very, very special day because it's
the 25th anniversary of Tim Berners-Lee putting in his proposal for what has become the amazing
thing – the World Wide Web. I wanted to do a quick video just to say Happy Birthday!
Don't worry, I'm not going to sing this time at all!
The Web was, and still is truly revolutionary. It's impacted on everybody's lives who have
come into contact with it. It's provided us with communication channels we could only
ever dream of.
I remember when I first got a modem and I used to listen to it dialling up. My heart
would start pounding because I never knew what I would find. To me the Web was initially
an endless source of information. Even though way back then there wasn't even a handful
of websites online. But there were all sorts of newsgroups and stuff that you could tap
into to communicate with people 100's and 1000's of miles away. The Web has become so
much more than that, so much more than what anyone could imagine.
When people talk of social media and the social web, I think the Web has always been social.
It's always been about people. As businesses working online, we shouldn't forget that.
There is someone sat behind that keyboard, or touch-screen or keypad or whatever we're
using to access the World Wide Web these days. It's constantly growing, constantly evolving
and putting people in touch. The Web is about people. I think we should all aim to keep
it that way, despite people wanting to spy on it or censor it. The Web is owned by nobody,
the Web is owned by all of us. The Web is people. On that note, Happy Birthday World
Wide Web! I'll speak to you soon.