A Gift For The World Wide Web On Its 25th Birthday: A Bill of Rights

The World Wide Web is officially a quarter of a century old, and it’s safe to say that the world we know today would be dramatically different without Tim Berners-Lee’s invention. In its short lifespan of 25 years, we’ve seen the dot-com boom, and thus the transformation of Silicon Valley, the rise of email platforms, service providers and conglomerates including Google, Facebook and Yahoo!, the cataloging of billions of information points including free access to thousands of books, an endless supply of medical information and, yes, hours of entertainment via cat memes.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/homaycotte/2014/08/19/a-gift-for-the-world-wide-web-on-its-25th-birthday-a-bill-of-rights/