15 Years of World Wide Web

It's hard to believe that the commercial web has been in existence for a full 15 years. What harder for me to believe is that I've been using the internet for about 13 of those years. I was one of the first people to start "surfing the net". I personally remember using AOL since 1993 or around that time.

There's a poll on CNN currently asking what the most significant part of history on the world wide web. Personally I don't think anything is significant enough to be listed in this poll but I think the dot com bust certainly brought to life a lot of what has shaped the internet since 1998. Since then, almost all of what has happened including Napster being shut down and Google gaining popularity has happened as a result. If this were a Multiple choice answer, many people would probably be voting wrong.

Here are some of the results of the poll and a bit better understanding of where the writer of the article really went wrong. I highly agree with their feedback more than the article. And personally, although Google is popular, it certainly didn't revoluntionalize the Internet.