Thanks Tim?

It was on 6th August 1991 the world wide web was born, with the first website put online by Tim Berners-Lee. The site is still there, at info.cern.ch, although there are now rather more interesting webpages out there.

Actually though, most of us tend to stick to just a few favourites - I rarely stray far from BBC and Guardian, plus banking with the Coop and the odd purchase from Abel & Cole, greenmetropolis or even good old John Lewis. Facebook links mop up the best of the rest.

There's also the joy of blipping of course - impossible without the web - and I love a bit of French 'Fip' radio too, also absent in those unthinkable days before the net.

So I'm immensely grateful for the revolution in information gifted to us by Berners-Lee.

Yet I do spend rather too much time in cyberspace and not enough in the 'real' world - especially so with Katii away in Switzerland, ironically, just down the road from CERN, where the first website was developed.

So it's with a slight hesitation that, surfacing after a few more hours lost to cyberspace, I salute the joys of the web and say "Thanks Tim" for your gift of the world wide web, 22 years young today.