The web is twenty years old (and getting into all kinds of trouble)

Twenty years ago today, Tim Berners-Lee published a proposal for a bold new hypertext project that he called the “World Wide Web.” In other words, in a sense, today is the Internet’s twentieth birthday.

In Tennessee, Federal Judge Thomas W. Phillips unwittingly marked the occasion by sentencing David Kernell to a year in custody. Kernell is the college student who, in 2008, hacked the personal Yahoo! email account that vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin had been using to conduct official Alaska state business for some reason.

When reached for comment on this remarkable coincidence, Palin probably put on a “gosh darn” face and said something hilariously ignorant. I mean, go with what you know, right?

All right, I’m sure I’m not the first or even the hundred millionth person to take a shot at Palin, let alone question her ability to lead. But as long as we’re talking about Tennessee, the vice presidency, and the invention of the Internet, it’s got to be said that this sort of thing never would have happened to Al Gore.

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