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Credit goes to a poster ("UoHCIC") on Slashdot for spotting this not insignificant landmark. If you check out the "History" section of the W3C Web site, you will find a page entitled "A Little History of the World Wide Web". There's a small entry

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for 17 May 1991: "Presentation to "C5" Committee. General release of WWW on central CERN machines."

You can read the content of the presentation here. CERN, of course, is the European nuclear research organisation that wanted its staff to be better able to share information online.

So, you could say that the Web was started ten years ago today. A truly revolutionary phenomenon, it was the Web that enabled the Internet to truly penetrate into public consciousness.

We reported on Tuesday, that Tim Berners Lee - the man behind the World Wide Web - has been made an honorary Fellow of the Royal Society. But remember, Bill Clinton is the man who takes the credit for the Web - it happened on his watch, don't you know.