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10 Years of the World Wide Web

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the waiting-for-godot dept.

NCSA Mosaic was first released ten years ago today (oh, I guess you could mark time from the 1.0 release, but who's counting), marking the first milestone in the evolution of the graphical World Wide Web. HTTP was originally developed between 1989-1991, but didn't take off until there was a useful browser which could display inline images. You can still download old versions of Mosaic from browsers.evolt.org. So, all you folks who think you have a real handle on technological progress: what will information-access-over-electronic-networks look like in 2013?

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  1. Re:Long term pronunciation change? by Altus · · Score: 0, Flamebait


    or maybe it will change to "duh" to remind us of how stupid George "Duh" Bush was.

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  2. Re:Innovations I like by fucksl4shd0t · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    My fave - the CTRL+Enter which fills in the "www." and ".com" in IE's location bar. Ideally, you'd be able to configure ATL+Enter and/or Shift+Enter for .org and .edu or something...

    My personal favorite IE shortcut is CTL-ALT-DEL. I find that the most useful shortcut in Windows actually. The only shortcut I can image that's more useful is to get my woodcutting ax and...

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