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Re: Acronym/Abbreviation best practice

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From: John E. Brandt
Date: Mar 13, 2009 10:40AM

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And before I forget...a big happy birthday to the WWW (or should that be
<abbr title"World Wide Web">WWW</abbr>), 20 today!
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Curious - how do you come up with this date?

I did a Wikipedia search and found a reference to a "proposal" written by
Tim Berners-Lee in March 1989. Do you have a source?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWW#History
http://www.w3.org/History/1989/proposal.html

I'm always up for a party!

~j

PS: I'm also enjoying the discussion on the abbreviation/acronym thing -
keep it up.

John E. Brandt
Web Design, Development, Consultation
Augusta, Maine USA
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