On this date in 1991 Tim Berners Lee gave us the first description of the World Wide Web

davefischer, 10 months ago

I remember the first time I heard about the web. My exact response was: “That sounds like a waste of bandwidth.”

Ha ha. Oops.

(In the early 90s I was completely obsessed with usenet. The graphical nature of web pages seemed like a terrible idea to me.)

LongbottomLeaf, 10 months ago

Thanks for this! I had to look some things up.

Daemon (computing)

Maxwell’s demon

Which brought meaning to eps1.3_da3m0ns.mp4

TIL about eudaemonia when reading about the history of the internet.

kernelle, 10 months ago

The fediverse is the perfect example of how social media should be implemented following Sir Tim Berners-Lee’s vision when creating the WWW. That’s why this feels like pre-2010 internet!

uphillbothways, 10 months ago

http://info.cern.ch - home of the first website

maporita, 10 months ago

From the overview:

“The project is based on the philosophy that much academic information should be freely available to anyone. It aims to allow information sharing within internationally dispersed teams, and the dissemination of information by support groups.”.

Now it seems most of it is taken up by TikTok videos of someone’s pet poodle

DandomRude, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

Hello world, this is the first website

uphillbothways, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

your comment originally only said "Hello world" when I made my comment above, you edited it after that.

fuser, 10 months ago

Scrolling back through the original news archives is pretty interesting info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/News/9211.html there’s a link at the bottom of each for “previous edition”.