This year marks the 30th anniversary of the first web page on the World Wide Web, which means a person has to be nearly half a century old to clearly remember the patchwork progress, the false starts and stops, and the trial and error that eventually gave us what is now the defining foundation of 21st-century life.
We take the internet for granted in 2021, but it took us decades to get to this point. Throughout the years, the barriers toward adoption tumbled away, and there were clear signs that this new technology would fundamentally change the way the world lives and works.
Charles H. Silver is the CEO of Permission.io, a technology provider of permission-based advertising solutions. Charles previously founded RealAge.com, a company that used big data to connect individuals to advertisers on a permission basis. Charles is also co-founder of Reality Shares, an SEC-registered investment adviser with five publicly traded ETFs, and of Blockforce Capital, a multi-strategy cryptocurrency hedge fund. Charles is a graduate of the University of Michigan and a former staff member for a United States Congressman.