ABSTRACT
This conference celebrates the passing of 40 years since the establishment of the Internet (dating this, presumably, to the first connection between two nodes on ARPANET in October, 1969). For a gathering of media scholars such as this, however, it may be just as important not only to mark the first testing of the core technologies upon which much of our present-day Net continues to build, but also to reflect on another recent milestone: The 20th anniversary of what is today arguably the chief interface through which billions around the world access and experience the Internet—the World Wide Web, launched by Tim Berners-Lee in 1989.
