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Re: Acronym/Abbreviation best practice

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From: Simius Puer
Date: Mar 13, 2009 11:15AM

hehe - sorry for taking everyone off-topic by my remark. Hope the
administrators don't mind, it is Friday after all.

John, I was indeed referring to the
http://www.w3.org/History/1989/proposal.html. Whilst this was not the WWW
itself, nor indeed the final proposal document that got approved, it is
recognised as the real birth of the Web and was indeed written 20 years ago
today (thanks for the link Jens).

*Andrew*


2009/3/13 John E. Brandt < <EMAIL REMOVED> >

> 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
> <EMAIL REMOVED>
> 207-622-7937
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: <EMAIL REMOVED>
> [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Jens Brueckmann
> Sent: Friday, March 13, 2009 12:52 PM
> To: WebAIM Discussion List
> 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/
>
>
> --
> Jens Brueckmann
> http://www.yalf.de
>