Dublin Web Summit captures past, present, and future under one roof

From the father of the internet to the future of Facebook, by way of the world’s most famous skateboarder, the Dublin Web Summit managed to capture the past, present, and future of the World Wide Web under one roof.

The first communication over what we would recognise as the internet was made on Oct 29, 1969, at 10.30pm in room 3420 in UCLA, and the man responsible, Leonard Kleinrock, told the Web Summit that, in the near future, chips in our skin and eyes will be communicating with the very rooms that we walk into.

Prof Kleinrock described the internet as “a machine to generate surprises”. He said that no one could have predicted the uses that connecting humans would be put to, but the idea of the connection was as old as the 1908, when Nicola Tesla had predicted it.