Gadgetory

move over 40 for there's a new error code on the web but let's hope you don't see it I'm Bridget Carey this is your scene that update if the government censors a website you may come across a new type of error code when you visit the blocked page now we've all seen the 404 file not found error and of course there are number codes for many other problems for example 408 is a request timeout in 403 is a forbidden page where access is denied and now a new code was just approved by the internet Engineering steering group error 451 it's a code for when a website is censored so you know it's a legal reason and not the fault of a technical glitch the code was submitted by Tim Bray he's a co-author of XML specification and he picked 451 as a nod to the Ray Bradbury novel Fahrenheit 451 it's a story of a society that outlaws and burns all books which sensors ideas now there is a hiccup to this concept some governments can also block the use of a 451 code to hide the reason that a sites not working but if a country doesn't block it you'll know the difference between a legal takedown request and a site just not allowing access or not working the web has changed quite a bit since it first launched if you want to get nostalgic the first page on the World Wide Web went up 25 years ago British computer scientist Tim berners-lee published the first webpage on December twentieth nineteen ninety when he was a researcher at the european organization for nuclear research known as cern you can still see the first page today the point was to make it easy to search and share electronic documents and it was first used by defense and academic groups these 3 w's here were the first logo created for the worldwide web project with dog colors and washing machines now on the web just think how much the internet is going to change in another 25 years well for those of you just scrolling with boredom through facebook today on your phone the social network will now tell you what events are going on near you and you'll get notifications if your friends are going in the iOS app go to events in the more window and you can find events for today tomorrow this week or the weekend even next week it also suggests things that it thinks you'll like now I don't know why it thinks I want to go to the no-pants subway ride but thanks for thinking so highly of me facebook clearly I need to change how much I share in the new year that's it for the SEC news update and there's always more cnet com from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey