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Web Turns Fifteen (again?)
Accommodate Students writes "The BBC is amongst those reporting that the World Wide web has turned fifteen. However, 6 August 1991 is not the only date claimed as the 'birthday of the internet'. So, is it time to fight this out to declare an official birthday? Or can the Web carry on like the Queen with (at least) two birthdays per year? The BBC also have a Flash Timeline of 15 years of the web."
If someone is claiming that, they're WAY off. Web != internet.
Nuts to the "Flash Timeline". The first article has a picture of the web - captioned: From its origins at the Cern lab the web has become a phenomenon
:-)
Now thats impressive
There are shills on slashdot. Apparently, I'm one of them.
I already sent Al Gore a birthday card and a nice fruit basket.
Where were you when the voynix came?
Even the article summary seems to confuse the World Wide Web with the Internet. And we are surprised there is confusion over the birthday? The article is pretty heavily focused on the WWW, so I think this is just a bad summary. Shocked, I am.
..and she lies about her age.
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It's a really simple debate. Just edit the wikipedia entry so this birthdate becomes part of wikiality. The facts are far more important than the truth.
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I'd forgotton about Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web.
"It must be 15 in imperial years this time..."
I think you have it figured out. Someone give the man a gallon of free bandwidth!
Where were you when the voynix came?
Wiki - "The first Web site built was at http://info.cern.ch/ [2] and was first put online on August 6, 1991. It provided an explanation about what the World Wide Web was, how one could own a browser and how to set up a Web server. It was also the world's first Web directory, since Berners-Lee maintained a list of other Web sites apart from his own."a yer/index.php?id=9f72b0fbe5bde711a0696cac5b339a5e/
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The BBC article is quite clear, August 6 was when the World Wide Web became possible due to the release of source code on Usenet. The summary indicates a poor understanding that WWW and Internet are not the same thing, whoever wrote the BBC article gets this, and has put together an interesting synopsis of events surrounding the birth of the web.
Without using the word "tubes".
Where's the Kaboom?
There's supposed to be an Earth-shattering Kaboom.
Just think about what the web will be able to do when it finally turns 18--namely look at itself!
This guy's the limit!
LETTERSPACING0 KERNING0Tim BernersLee formally introduced his world wide web project to the world on the alt.hypertext newsgroup.
It always boggles my mind when content management software and the output to the web gets so confused. Don't people test these things? I almost envision a new entry to the Fifteen Years list on BBC.
August, 2006
Content Management Craze Hits the Web
IT Managers around the world decide they have to install content management systems in order to be more "modern". The Internet collapses briefly until valiant web designers revert to simple text editors to recreate the web.
Where's the first AOL "me too" post?
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill
Let us know when the web becomes "barely legal."
Multiple dates have been claimed as the birthday for the internet - so let's settle this by checking Wikipedia.
According to Wikipedia - the gold standard for such important questions - the internet was conceived on October 12, 1492. (Also worth noting, Carl Friedrich Gauss was the first person to hold the title of "webmaster".)
No-no-no-no-no. Both of you are wrong.
Al Gore created (not invented) the Internet, not the Web. This is the birthday of the Web, which Tim Berners-Lee created.
(The actual Al Gore quote is something along the lines of "I took the initiative to create the Internet," nothing about inventing. Specifically.)
On a slightly serious note, this is the birthday of the Web: HTML delivered over HTTP, I'd assume. Not the Internet, which can be considered to have a birthday of anywhere between 1982 and 1989 depending on your definition.
But then again, so can the web. Looking over the W3C's timeline you can get several different "birthdays" for the WWW. Another good one might be March 1989, when Tim Berners-Lee wrote his first HTML/HTTP proposal.
The August 6th, 1991 date is the first date that an actual browser was made available to the public and could be thought of as the "birth date" as well.
You are in a maze of twisty little relative jumps, all alike.
Didn't the Web just turn 2.0?
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Quite curious how the initials of the article turned out to be :)
Hmm. So, accoring to google, 500ml is 16.9oz, and an imperial pint is 19.2oz. Most bars here in the city sell beer in 16oz glasses, and I've been to more than a few that serve them in 12! 3 more oz in a beer... hmmm maybe we were wrong to kick out the English...
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more specifically, Al Gore qualified that later as voting on legislation to create DARPAnet, an ancestor of the Internet, not the Internet itself. DARPAnet evolved into ARPAnet and eventually into the Internet.
Anyhow, nothing he ever said could ever make up for the idiotic things the elder Bush's VP said http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Dan_Quayle/ - even in context he sounded like an idiot, although a few of them I think he meant figuratively (like being a part of Europe).
And no, I'm not a Democrat troll, I haven't been happy with any President for either major party(including Reagan, whom I think was a great figurehead, but made some lousy decisions) - most of the candidates for major parties I like are nixed early on because they stray on some issues from party lines.
That's because porn was almost never on FTP. Pre-WWW porn was found on USENET.