On 25 December 1990, scientist Tim Berners Lee escaped the interminable festive punishment of turkey and board games meted out at Christmas, and instead did something way more exciting: he sent the first successful communication between an HTTP client and a server. Which in techno-dolt terminology means he sent the first ever message over the internet. Two decades down the line and all of us are endlessly clicking away like a shoal of arthritic dolphins.
So, next month the internet comes of age and, like all 21 year olds worth their salt, he’s blossomed into a right bolshie little sod. He’s also watching far too much porn.
