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The world wide web has existed longer than the time between the inventions of the radio and television
(self.showerthoughts)
A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted, clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts: 1
If you made it this far, showerthoughts is accepting new mods. This community is generally tame so its not a lot of work, but having a few more mods would help reports get addressed a little sooner.
Whats it like to be a mod? Reports just show up as messages in your Lemmy inbox, and if a different mod has already addressed the report the message goes away and you never worry about it.
The birth of the internet and the birth of the world wide web are two differnet things though: The world wide web started in 1989.
Why do I have August 6, 1991 on my mind for "the world wide web switches on"?
That was the day he opened it up to the world. 1989 was when he got it working at CERN, and it was released into the public domain in 1993.
https://webfoundation.org/about/vision/history-of-the-web/