On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 1:06 PM, Ofer Inbar <cos@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
-- Seems odd that W3C picked the date of the submission
of a proposal document as the birthday to celebrate.
-- Cos
They didn't
The PR people chose the date as 'a birthday to celebrate'. We have only just finished the 20th anniversaries. Since there was a 5 year span from the initial proposal to the launch of Mosaic and the first Web Conference there is an anniversary almost every year:
Let n be an integer > 0
1989 + 5*n First Proposal Document
1990 + 5*n URIs and HTTP invented
1991 + 5*n First Web server outside CERN
1992 + 5*n First public demonstration at the CHEP'92 conference in Annecy
1993 + 5*n The first Web conference, incorporation of W3C
We don't celebrate every Web Birthday, we just have five different dates that are celebrated once every 5 years.
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