Although Tim Berners-Lee filed his proposal March 10, 1989 today is the official 25th birthday of the World Wide Web.
"Twenty-five years ago today, I filed the proposal for what was to become the World Wide Web. My boss dubbed it 'vague but exciting'. Luckily, he thought enough of the idea to allow me to quietly work on it on the side."
Berners-Lee Web 25th Anniversary message
The World Wide Web is not the Internet.
According to webopedia: The Internet is a massive network of networks, a networking infrastructure. It connects millions of computers together globally, forming a network in which any computer can communicate with any other computer as long as they are both connected to the Internet. Information that travels over the Internet does so via a variety of language know as protocols.
The World Wide Web, or simply Web (or The Web), is a way of accessing information over the medium of the Internet.
I don't know where the last two and a half decades have gone or how the years have slipped away so quickly. The Web has been around all this time and I still have a closet full of 1989 baseball cards that need organizing. It seems like the '89 San Francisco earthquake was last week. I can still see the window blinds moving and feel the ground shaking.
As Wanda and I count down the days to our next cruise I find the birthday of the information highway very appropriate.
These two articles caught my eye this morning.
Six Gadgets to Improve Your Travel Experience and Must-Have Vacation Travel Gadgets.
The first dozen links I followed took me to videos. This leads me to believe that after twenty-five-years of information on the Web people would rather watch than read. Eventually I found what I was searching for.
The gadgets to improve your travel experience were eye masks, neck pillows and other sleep aids. Things to make you more comfortable. The must-have gadgets were electronic items to help you stay plugged in, charged up and ready for anything.
Must-Have Vacation Travel Gadgets:
1. Solar-Powered Battery, Phone Charger, USB Hub and Flashlight
2. Digital Hanging Luggage Scale
3. 6-in-1 HDMI Dock Camera Connection Kit
4. Global Entourage Talking Travel Translator
5. Clear Spot Voyager 4G Hotspot
6. Jawbone JAMBOX Black Portable Bluetooth Wireless Stereo Speaker
7. Victorinox Swiss Army Knife WITH A FLASH USB
Now some of you may have one or two of these items and who am I to judge but W.T.F......even the Swiss Army knife has a flash drive now. By the way, it has 32GB of storage.
I do like the global translator and wish I had one on the trip to Europe. It would have made asking for change and a bathroom much easier. I was getting irritated no one spoke English and had to keep reminding myself I was in fucking France. But the majority of these "vacation" necessities I'd rather do without.
Saturday we leave for a 7 day California Coastal cruise. It's the same cruise we sailed last October. We plan on doing a few things we didn't do last time. Touring the Queen Mary in Long Beach and strolling the boardwalk in Santa Barbara. Like last cruise we're getting together with family in San Diego. Wanda and I are looking forward to the cruise and a relaxing vacation.
Due to so many concerns about Internet privacy this is a good time to let any potential thieves know, Grandson Nicholas is staying at the house, we have a very elaborate home alarm system and Steve is a highly trained attack cat. So don't even think about it.
Wanda and I went on our first cruise in 2003. I think we had one cell phone and a borrowed 35mm camera. Now, eleven years later, we'll take a digital camera, two cell phones, a Samsung tablet and a Kindle. I have an 11" Acer lap top but I'll hand write notes and blog about the cruise when I get home.
I'm not very good with new technology. We bought an all-in-one Dell touch screen with Windows 8 three months ago. It has a ton of cool and interesting apps I never use because I set it up exactly like a desk top. The first time I used the touch capability I left finger prints and smudges on the screen and haven't used it since. That was an extra $100 for nothing. When it comes to computers and electronics I subscribe to the KISS theory. Keep It Simple Stupid.
In the spring of 2004 we went on our second cruise. Embarkation day is always hectic and somewhat confusing, especially for new travelers. Wanda and I were having lunch in the buffet area when I heard a crackling and a screech coming for a table near us.
Screech click click: "Hey, where you at?"
Click click: "I'm up here in the buffet, where are you at?"
Screech crackle click: "Down at the bar gettin' drunk with your sister."
Walkie-Talkies. Cheap Radio Shack Walkie-Talkies.
I don't see or hear them much anymore...sending a text is much nicer.
Clothes, money and a few good books are my must-have items on vacation.
Oh, and Wanda....I won't leave home without her.
If at first you don't succeed......
Han Zhang, 30, went after her husband’s manhood when he asked her for a divorce and again three months later.
During the first incident, Zhang reportedly crushed up sleeping pills and put them in a drink. When her husband fell asleep, she went after his private parts and flushed his penis down the toilet.
She was apparently worried that he was interested in another woman.
He was able to forgive her. "I still love my wife," he said. “She was 16 years old just like me, and gave me two sons.”
Zhang was released on bail and returned home to look after her husband and children.
According to the translation about what happened next, some time passed before Zhang became jealous again and used a syringe to inject a box of milk with crushed sleeping pills.
Then this happened:
“Zhang cut off his remaining genitals and threw it on the ground.”
She then apparently called for an ambulance and turned herself in to police.
At least she called an ambulance for the poor guy. He may want to find another place to live while he still has a tongue.
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