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Ten Years of Web Browsing
AnamanFan writes "Today in 1993, a group of students at the University of Illinois released a little program called Mosaic. News.com.com.com has a special four-part series on the anniversary. I for one will celebrate by spending extra time with Mozilla and Camino." Slashdot marked the anniversary a little while ago.
Who cares when web browsing started.
The more important question is when did the first porn site start?
If I have nothing to hide, don't search me
Who would have guessed that so much would change in a decade?
No kidding, I just saw a blink tag yesterday...
Dacels Jewelers can't be trusted.
what a bloated piece of crap webpages would have become, they might have abandoned the idea...
Oh, how little I knew.
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Excuse me, I have to go outside and stretch my legs. A bathroom break would be a nice change of pace too.
Why slashdot? Why not?
Ten years of quality pr0n! Go internet! May you bring us a 1000 years more!
Slashdot marked the anniversary a little while ago.
;-)
Great. They know they are posting dupes and they even brag about it
RedShirt
Microsft spel chekar vor sail, worgs grate !!!
We should celebrate this taking the original source code from Mosaic and updating it to include these new useful features:
Pop up ads
ActiveX controls that can have full access to your computer
An e-mail client with HTML support so you can view spam as it was intended
and so on. Go progress!
Dear Neophytus,
On behalf of the Netscape Development Team, I just want to say, you're welcome!
Happy Hunting!
The Netscape Development Team.
This is my sig. Its pathetic.
I recall getting on yahoo, surfing all the interesting links in one night, getting bored and going back to usenet news.
So... what you're saying is you reached the end of the internet?
I still remember thinking what's the big deal. Revolution, Shemzolution. This thing will never take off.
Don't feel bad. Bill Gates said the same thing and according to Peter Jennings (and any other talking head that gets a chance to interview him), Gates is one of the smartest men in the world. I mean, he's got all that money, right? Surely he deserves it all for his visionary thinking. If a super-genius could make a mistake, then you shouldn't be so hard on yourself for making the same mistake.
I remember hearing one interviewer on a radio talk show ask Gates: "Mr Gates, everyone is wondering: how did you write the Internet?" and good ol' Billy didn't bother to correct the man but gave some vague answer about how the Internet would make information available to everyone (provided they purchase a valid copy of Windows, of course).
GMD
watch this
and I really miss Internet Policy, which have had banned commercial stuff from the Internet.
10 years ago i was playing in my backgarden eating mud. And the interweb was happening without me! :(
No kidding, I just saw a blink tag yesterday...
Did it say "coming soon"?
I demand the Cone of Silence!
... and raise you news.com.com.com.com.
a world in progress...
..most of us had our last productive day on April 21st 1993. :)
Internet protocols that never made it:
Like the GOPHER protocol, used in text-based information outlines, the BEAVER protocol was the first porn-only protocol available on the world-wide-web. BEAVER://hotladies.com certainly had great promise and wide usership in its early days, but the advent of MOSAIC and all things HTTP soon spelled the end of one of the more outrageous experiments in Internet history. Now it joins the long list of Archie, Veronica, and WAIS as the burned out Stuckey's stand on the information super-highway
Notable features were the massive amount of stripped bits in beaver packets, thrust-technology (the precursor of push-technology), ActiveXXX support, and of course evil bit technology which was 10 years (!) ahead of its time.
beaver://slashdot.com -- we never knew ya...
less ~/scripts/browser-is-hanging.sh
#!/bin/bash
# killall -9 mosaic-bin
# killall -9 netscape-bin
# killall -9 mozilla-bin
# killall -9 phoenix-bin
killall -9 thunderbird-bin
There aint no pancake so thin it doesn't have two sides.
April 22, 1994: The first successful requested web page is served. .com era to come. .com bust, but she will never be happy again, on her private island in the South Pacific.
April 23, 1994: Irwin Spelnik attempts to read a Hello World page and receives the first 404 page not found.
May 10, 1994: Charlie Northrup gives up on his dream to become a buddhist monk after a 4x4 spashes mud on him while he played a tamborine on a street corner, he decides to get even and files for web service patents.
June 7, 1995: Wanda Furdman, attempting to entice her boyfriend, Jimmy Pimpleton, into proposing, places a nude picture of herself on a webserver and emails him the URL. Rather than keep this to himself, he joins the spam craze and sends to URL to everyone he can find an email address for. His plan flops as he hasn't figured a way to collect money for this, however he is widely credited with establishing the business model of the
December 24, 1997: Melvin Gormly acts out an episode of Star Trek with figurines and his own voice, capturing it and converting it to an AVI file. He places it on his school web server and is promptly served the first Cease and Desist letter over web content and copyrighted material.
April 1, 1998: CowboyNeal finally abandons his trusted TRS-80, buys a PC and joins the information age. The internet will never be the same.
July 14, 1998: Wilbur Grimp, The CEO of Universal Business Associates, a fortune 100 company, suggests an discreet interlude with a detective posing as a 13 year old boy in an internet chat room. The pair are married on San Francisco 6 months later.
November 7, 1998: Hershel Plotz ignores requests to pay for an item he has won on eBay and receives the first negative feedback. Two days later Hershel is bitten by a dog, hit by a car, falls into an open manhole and drowns. The first troll on Slashdot finds him guilty of being in league with Microsoft and deserving of his fate.
November 11, 1998: The first troll on slashdot accuses a bitten, battered and drowned former Sun Java Developer and good friend of Scott McNeally, of being in league with Microsoft. Months later a stack of papers will be found in a brown paper bag in a Kent, WA bus depot locker connecting Hershel Plotz and William Gates III in a bogus jcode ring. The troll is vindicated, but the victory goes un-noticed in the torrent of me-too-trolls who followed.
February 21, 1999: Freida Morganblat writes the first Internet Search Engine in VB.net Tragically, the first VB.net compiler and Microsofts CLR won't be created unil years later and she instead turns to a career as a stockbroker, makes millions and squirrels most of it away before the
October 31, 1999: CNN's main page is hacked, the days top news is replaced with preposerous headlines and idiotic stories. No one notices for hours, then stock closes up 3 points.
January 1, 1900: The first automobile plant opens in Vetchburg, ND. It closes three days later because of a horrific glitch in computer software.
January 3, 2000: First webcast of manufactured Hollywood brain-softening music. Rupert Windelpoons digitizes it and captures it to an array of hard disks. Initially pleased with capturing music, Rupert realizes its all tripe and reformats the drives, narrowly avoiding a not-social call from Hilary Rosen and Jack Valenti.
August 17, 2000: Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda shyly and quivering with nervous energy, attempts to email Lara Croft, asking for a date. After days of silence he decides it was never to be, he turns with tearful eyes to a girl named Kathleen for consolation and the rest, as they say, is history.
March 24, 2001: A mothballed server is powered up and the sendmail daemon forwards a queued message from the french president to president@whitehouse.gov, what was meant as a personal jest between Francois Mitterand and Bill Clinton will eventually result in strained feelings between the US and France.
September 12, 2001: Virgil Nordling abandons his plan for a bloo
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
For a while we were installing Trumpet on every machine in the office, except for the silly MacTCP installs. Actually, Trumpet seemed to work better than MS's own Winsock 1.0 implementation. The trace window was wonderful for protocol programming.
That's binary. They're trying to catch you off guard and get the guys that realize that they really only mean 2 years.
*sigh* Seeing those screenshots makes me want to place a bid for a copy of OPENSTEP on eBay...