The Internet turned 20 today. Tim Berners-Lee (the patron saint of all things www) was on Breakfast talking about where it will all be in another 20 years. This, clearly, is an impossible question to answer.
If we look back 20 years, when the Internet first started invading our minds, who could have possibly imagined Web 2.0 technologies? OK, apart from Tim Berners-Lee…and a few wishful thinkers. And smartphone apps which are (nearly all) designed to use the web – without the Internet, smartphone apps wouldn’t exist. Actually, smartphones probably wouldn’t exist!
Actually, there is a whole array of things that wouldn’t exist. Online banking, shopping, sport results, Facebook, Twitter, blogging, Blip…a very big list! And, of course, the concept of The Cloud – a world where everything is managed on the Internet. An amazing business model where on-site storage becomes so 20th century.
Who would have thought, 20 years ago, that we would buy our music and books via the Internet? It’s what I do. Take it away and I’d be lost. I’d also not be getting so much work done at the Science Museum if I had to rely only on paper-based products.
So a big happy birthday from me!
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But in the garden…Rather than sweetpeas on both the obelisks, Mirinda decided black eyed Susans would look good in the hot border. They have started to flourish and, I think, look great against the blue. Here’s how they looked this morning.
Black Eyed Susans
And a very big day for the gladiolus! The blooms are starting to emerge. The photo is a bit closer today, showing them starting to creep towards the light. They are unbelievably red.
Gladiolus - day six
Mirinda is due home in about an hour after three weeks in Oz and two days on planes. I figure she’ll go straight to bed.
Wonderful going to be great and as you say red whoopee.
Please ask Mirinda if she got my last text. love the black eyed susans
love mum