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Title: Web "will last 500 years"
Post by: Simon on October 16, 2010, 10:38

Web pages written today will still be readable in 500 years, according to Opera's chief technology officer Hakon Wium Lie.

At an Opera event in Oslo, that firm's CTO and so-called "father of CSS" noted his former colleague Sir Tim Berners-Lee predicted over a decade ago that HTML4 - the current web standard - would still be readable in 200 years.

"I’m going to up him," said Wium Lie. "This is going to last 500 years. That’s not a random number, it’s very convenient number, as none of us are going to be around and you can’t come back and say hey, you were wrong."

Read more: http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/361933/web-will-last-500-years

Title: Re: Web "will last 500 years"
Post by: GillE on October 16, 2010, 11:47

And Chorley football club will be European Champions for 20 consecutive seasons starting in 2116.

 ::)

Title: Re: Web "will last 500 years"
Post by: chorleydave on October 16, 2010, 12:38

Quote from: GillE on October 16, 2010, 11:47

And Chorley football club will be European Champions for 20 consecutive seasons starting in 2116.

 ::)

If the billionaire owner would put his hand in his pocket, 2016 would not be beyond the realms of possibility, Gill.  Unfortunately, he prefers to spend his money on his other assets, such as racecourses and the donkeys that run on them, not to mention Blackpool Tower and Preston North End.

Title: Re: Web "will last 500 years"
Post by: Clive on October 16, 2010, 19:20

I'm with Gill on this.  Media format is extremely transient and I will guarantee that the Internet will have changed out of all recognition within 20 years.