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World Wide Web (1991)

by jhirshon on 8/23/16, 7:34 PM with 13 comments

  • by weinzierl on 8/23/16, 8:06 PM

    I clicked around a bit and expected most links to be dead but surprisingly all of them worked. Then it crossed my mind: Because it was the first page there was nowhere to link - so no external links, no dead links.
  • by cozzyd on 8/23/16, 8:47 PM

    When people aren't satisfied with the "learning about the universe" justification for doing high energy physics, I remind them that particle physicists invented the world wide web.
  • by TazeTSchnitzel on 8/23/16, 8:51 PM

    Look at that HTML, it's so quaint. 80-column aligned. Uppercase labels. No <HTML>. <HEADER> and <NEXTID>. Numeric NAMEs on all the links.

    And it uses <DL>/<DT>/<DD>, which seem sadly forgotten on today's web.

  • by packetized on 8/23/16, 9:04 PM

    Looking forward to celebrating the 25th anniversary of the last update, as well.

    < Last-Modified: Thu, 03 Dec 1992 08:37:20 GMT

  • by tomcam on 8/23/16, 8:38 PM

    It's fast. So fast.
  • by jeffjose on 8/23/16, 9:02 PM

    Damn. Only 25 years old. Puts things in perspective. Its not often that you live through a "before" and "after" to something as huge as this. (9/11 is probably another)