Today is the anniversary of the release of the web to the world to the world, in 1991, by nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqv0lhpftmk954vj8dpfxqhcdep6j39danul9ckkpnrfx4fngs98hs78rst7 when he said "Try it"
Billions have taken up his call to use the web. W3C, as a steward of this initial gift since 1994, is realizing our vision of making the web work, for everyone – a web designed for the good of its users, that is safe and secure. https://www.w3.org/blog/2025/vision-for-w3c-to-reach-durable-and-sustainable-success/
At our recent AC meeting in Hiroshima, Japan 🇯🇵 Sophia Wu (Ant Group) spoke on "Fighting the deepfake threats."
Generative AI has made it much easier and cheaper to create new content but raises trust concerns due to deepfake attacks. Using AI, fraudsters can craft fake videos from victims' images, enabling identity fraud. In her talk, Wu called for collaboration to tackle #deepfake threats with new complementary Web standards.
🎬 Watch the video: https://youtu.be/PGBIfZSF174
35 years ago, on 12 March 1989 Sir Tim Berners-Lee wrote “Information Management: A Proposal” outlining the World Wide Web.
Tim's vision outlined a future we are still creating:
"We should work toward a universal linked information system... to allow a place to be found for any information...and a way of finding it afterwards...
...we will be looking for a systems which are future-proof:
• portable, or supported on many platforms,
• Extendible to new data formats."
We hope you’ll join us here for learning about and celebrating advances in how the Web is designed for the good of humanity. Not for witty snap backs or old grudges. But for the Web Community. That community operates in a way that requires neither perfection, nor nastiness.
Thank you!
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Available now! "Meeting facilitation training" by Wendy Reid
"Understand the role of meeting facilitator, and take action to run better meetings" Online (part 1), hybrid (part 2) as part of TPAC 2023
https://www.w3.org/events/happenings/2023/meeting-facilitation-training/
We would like to thank our TPAC 2023 Inclusion Fund sponsors: TetraLogical, University of Illinois Chicago and an anonymous donor.
The Fund aims to help remove barriers for people from a group that is under-represented in the web community
https://www.w3.org/2023/09/TPAC/registration.html#inclusion-fund
On 6 August 1991, Tim Berners-Lee wrote to a newsgroup: "The WWW project merges the techniques of information retrieval and hypertext to make an easy but powerful global information system."
He noted "Try it" and the world was changed.
Thanks Tim!
https://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/1991/08/art-6487.txt
