Happy Birthday, buddy.

[Theophany]

20 years ago today Tim Berners Lee put the World Wide Web into the public domain. I fully intend to celebrate this fine day by using the Internet for what it was made for (porn, right?)

It's amazing how far this series of connected tubes has come and how much it has changed the world in so many different ways. I miss a lot of websites that no longer exist anymore (no, not you Geocities) and remember the good old days of scoring free dial up with Freeserve discs from magazines.

Reminisce with me over this fantastic creation, people!!

Happy Birthday, Internet.

 

[Hades]

Double post.

 

[Hades]

Are you sure the date is right?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/berners_lee_tim.shtml

He also created the first web browser and editor. The world's first website, http://info.cern.ch, was launched on 6 August 1991. It explained the World Wide Web concept and gave users an introduction to getting started with their own websites.

 

[Hades]

Triple post

 

[Cosimo]

Are you sure the date is right?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/berners_lee_tim.shtml

OP said put into public domain....

On 30 April 1993, CERN announced that the World Wide Web would be free to anyone:

http://tenyears-www.web.cern.ch/tenyears-www/Welcome.html

 

[Theophany]

As sim says, it wasn't available to everybody until '93.

 

[Devrij]

Freeserve discs! Man I had forgotten about them. I can't say I miss AOL chat rooms though.

 

[Cosimo]

Some background and restoration of the first web page:

http://info.cern.ch/

 

[illuz]

I am da same age as da interwubs. Crazy.

 

[sports_brah]

20 years ago today Tim Berners Lee put the World Wide Web into the public domain. I fully intend to celebrate this fine day by using the Internet for what it was made for (porn, right?)

It's amazing how far this series of connected tubes has come and how much it has changed the world in so many different ways. I miss a lot of websites that no longer exist anymore (no, not you Geocities) and remember the good old days of scoring free dial up with Freeserve discs from magazines.

Reminisce with me over this fantastic creation, people!!

Happy Birthday, Internet.

You didn't like geocities? I loved the epileptic inducing sites! Also I found that the content was a lot more 'original' before everyone started whoring themselves to google.

 

[Mr-White]

The world wide web will never catch on

MW