Internaut day, to remember the Internet's baby steps
Today we celebrate the Internaut day. Not the Internet Day, it's Internaut. What's an internaut? A person with extensive knowledge on how to use the Internet and is well aware of its history is called an "internaut". Although the source code was released into the public domain in April 1993, the invention of the World Wide Web is celebrated on August 23. Here's more.
A look back
It was in March 1989 that CERN scientist Tim Berners-Lee authored a proposal to develop a distributed information system. CERN celebrated this date as the 25th birth anniversary of the web after a quarter of a century. World's first website and server were prepared to go live from CERN by December 1990. World Wide Web by then had empowered scientists to share information globally.
Why this day?
However, that doesn't answer what's an "Internaut Day". Well, this day although, not exactly an anniversary of a special occasion, celebrates the initial steps towards the Internet revolution. Internaut i.e. a portmanteau of "Internet" and "astronaut," much like the first steps taken on the moon, marks the first steps taken by Berners-Lee, which proved to be a huge leap for mankind.
