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Re: Acronym/Abbreviation best practice

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From: John E. Brandt
Date: Mar 13, 2009 11:00AM

Many thanks....also found this:
http://www.sciam.com/report.cfm?id=web-20-anniversary

Happy B-day

~j

John E. Brandt
Web Design, Development, Consultation
Augusta, Maine USA
www.jebswebs.com
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207-622-7937 


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[mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Jens Brueckmann
Sent: Friday, March 13, 2009 12:52 PM
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Acronym/Abbreviation best practice

> And before I forget...a big happy birthday to the WWW (or should that be
> <abbr title"World Wide Web">WWW</abbr>), 20 today!
> <<
>
> 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://info.cern.ch/www20/


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Jens Brueckmann
http://www.yalf.de