Is YouTube getting ready to launch something? This screenshot was taken around 12AM EST, the day after Google completed their acquisition of the video sharing star.

Can’t wait to see what’s up in the morning. :)

I was reminded this morning that what has been my bread and butter for the last 12 years turned 16 yesterday.

Initial WorldWideWeb program development continues on the NeXT (TBL) . This was a “what you see is what you get” (wysiwyg) browser/editor with direct inline creation of links. The first web server was nxoc01.cern.ch, later called info.cern.ch, and the first web page http://nxoc01.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html Unfortunately CERN no longer supports the historical site. Note from this era too, the least recently modified web page we know of, last changed Tue, 13 Nov 1990 15:17:00 GMT (though the URI changed.)

A dot on the historical timeline, the Web has to be right up there among the quickest and most influential revolutions the World has so far witnessed.

And what a feisty teenager it can be… Here’s to another 16 years! :)