The World Wide Web.

Now who are these two very attractive fellas? One of them created the world wide web and the other one said he did; one of them is famous in America but hardly known in Britain and the other one isn't well known at all – really – but he changed all of our lives.

The one with the full head of hair is Al Gore and believe it, people of Britain, that once upon a time he was the Vice President of the United States of America, and could have been the President instead of George W Bush had he not been too proud to ask for help as he thought Bill Clinton was morally beneath his holier than thou just scrubbed and washed Christian self. He also won an Academy Award for his Global Warming Documentary Film.

The other fella is Tim Berners-Lee – he actually did create the world wide web – the Internet. He is in the news today because it is 25 years to the day since he presented the first paper on the Internet.

He is hardly known at all in America but here in Britain, where he is just about known, he celebrated the 25^th anniversary with a call for a 'magna-carta' of the web. He realises, now, like Oppenheimer who invented the Atom Bomb (or led the team), that he gave birth to a monster.

Now that we have the Internet our lives, instead of being made simple, have become more complicated. Without the Internet I wouldn't be able to write this blog, wouldn't have access to a lot of knowledge, wouldn't be able to go to the best web page of them all – YouTube – which gives me access, at the touch of a button, to some of the greatest, funniest and clever films clips, old records by some great pop and rock singers and, it must be said, access to a load of crap!!

The latest nuisance to me is a series of emails I am receiving from 'sexy' girls who send me links to their web sites/cams so they can show me their sexy bodies – so they say – and what I have done about this in the past is to put them on my spam list or junk list, when I would receive them. The problem this time is that the emails arrive in my box from ME!! Yes, would you believe it. So if I put them in to the junk box I am actually putting myself in there. You see when you send an email there are a few things you can put next to the To/ address line: you can put cc – which means carbon copy and sends a copy to people and they see each other; you can put bcc – which you should do if you are sending an email to a lot of people; or you can put reply to: and that is how these emails come to me.

So if I reply and tell them to go away I am replying to myself – anybody can do it if they know someone's email addy. I will figure out how to get rid of Jessie – which is the name of the person who sends most of these emails – and I have an idea.

Here's a clip from PC World which tells you what Tim Berners-Lee is calling for:

Tim Berners-Lee, credited with inventing the underpinnings of the World Wide Web, has called for a digital-age “Magna Carta”—new rules to protect Internet users from government interference.

Berners-Lee told The Guardian Tuesday that he believes the web now requires legalized protection. “We need a global constitution—a bill of rights,” he told the paper. The interview was conducted to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the World Wide Web, which hits that milestone today.

He'll be lucky – it's too late!