A life less ordinary as Twitter marks Web's 25th anniversary

This day 25 years ago the World Wide Web — brainchild of computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee — was conceived.

A life less ordinary as Twitter marks Web's 25th anniversary
Wed, 12 Mar, 2014 - 00:00
Peter O’Dwyer

Since then it has become integral to our lives, in much the same way as the birth of a child.

With that in mind, Twitter today extended its warmest wishes and looked back over a rollercoaster 25 years of emotion:

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