b'A time of REVOLUTIONIn 1989 the British scientist Tim Berners-Lee published a paper whilst working at CERN, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research in Geneva, Switzerland. Entitled Information Management: A Proposal, he outlined a system through which scientists could share information with each other; and in so doing, Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web, changing the world forever. The pace of that change has been remarkable, so that in a period of little more than half a lifetime, the internet has now become the means by which we communicate, discover and share information, learn and teach, are entertained, predict the weather, drive cars, sail ships, fly aeroplanes, search for products, buy and sell, even view world-wide locations at that very moment, and observe the rotating Earth in its orbit live from outer space. There is no aspect of our lives which is not touched by going online and surfing the net. We live in a time of technological revolution.The invention of the internet contributed advances in other forms of communication, information sharing, and entertainment which were also once heralded as revolutionary, for example the telephone, cinema, television and photography. And by a remarkable coincidence, 2025 marks the anniversary of a number of these technological achievements, which can be seen in the timeline below.This years edition of The Bridge 1875 150th anniversary of the invention of the is dedicated to those pioneersfirst telephone by Alexander Graham Bell who created these landmark technological achievements through 1895 features where staff and students 130th anniversary of the birth of cinema when the Lumire brothers were the first to present projecteddiscuss their favourite piece of moving pictures to a paying audience in Paristech, choose the greatest movie of all time, select their moment of TV gold, and explain which person 1925 100th anniversary of Charles Francis Jenkinsin history they would most like to achieving the first synchronised transmission ofphone, and why. Get Napoleon pictures and sound in a 10-minute film of a Bonaparte on his mobile? No miniature windmill in motion problem!The goal of the Web is to serve 100th anniversary of John Logie Baird successfully 1925 humanity, wrote Tim Berners-Lee transmitting the first television pictures about his game-changing invention. We build it now so that those 1925 100th anniversary of the first in-flight who come to it later will be ablescreening of a film to create things that we cannot ourselves imagine. Bestowed by 1975 50th anniversary of the release of the Altair 8800,the late Queen in 2010 with thewhich heralded the dawn of the microcomputer Order of Merit, the highest honour age. One month later Bill Gates and Paul Allenawarded to those who have served formed Micro-Soft (as the company was called the country with distinction, in four then) to develop and sell their Altair BASICsimple words the newly knighted interpreter software for the Altair 8800 Sir Tim Berners-Lee made clear how he envisaged the internets direction of travel, with all its 1975 opportunities and challenges: This 50th anniversary of Steven Sasson creating thefirst self-contained portable digital camerais for everyone.4'