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The Web Is 16 Today

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the raise-a-glass dept.

GuNgA-DiN writes, "Today marks the 16th anniversary of the World Wide Web. According to the timeline on the W3.org site: 'The first web page [was] http://nxoc01.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html. Unfortunately CERN no longer supports the historical site. Note from this era too, the least recently modified web page we know of, last changed Tue, 13 Nov 1990 15:17:00 GMT (though the URI changed.)' A lot has happened in 16 years and this little 'baby' has grown into quite the teenager."

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  1. Confirmed? by aedan · · Score: 5, Funny

    Has Netcraft confirmed this?

  2. Does this mean we get a John Water's movie? by feyhunde · · Score: 2, Funny

    And what state/country is the internet? Just wondering if she's legal.

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  3. Re:Is she legal yet? by Throtex · · Score: 5, Funny

    Legal? I'm sure she could teach you a thing or two!

    Everything I never wanted to know about sex I learned on the Internets. :P

  4. Re:Is she legal yet? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Only if you access her from Canada

  5. Re:Is she legal yet? by Kandenshi · · Score: 2, Funny

    And a few things you didn't want to know I imagine =\

    ewww @ tubgirl

  6. Thanks Al Gore by fit4130 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Thank you Al Gore. He's the most important man of the 21st century, hands down.

  7. Re:Is she legal yet? by Svippy · · Score: 0, Funny

    How can a series of tubes be female?

    Or more importantly, how would you do it with a series of tubes?

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  8. Oh, My Gawd, Now You've Done It! by darkonc · · Score: 4, Funny

    You've just slashdotted the entire World Wide Web!

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  9. Remembering SGML by RobertB-DC · · Score: 4, Funny

    Back in the early '90s, I was working at American Airlines. Then as now, they were largely mainframe-oriented, though access was via PC emulation. A suggestion came across that we should look at this thing called SGML -- a way of digitizing our voluminous documentation so that it would be accessible from any platform. Mainframe, PC, Mac... anything.

    I wasn't terribly impressed. Sure, it was cool to be able to add "hyper links" to other parts of the document, or to other documents, but the conversion process would be murder. And tables! What was all this TR TH TD mishmash, just to make a simple table?

    My recommendation: Why doesn't everyone just use Microsoft Word format? It's available to everyone, and it's not like the internal format is going to change or anything!

    Thank goodness I was working somewhere else by the time my first thoughts on SGML -- the precursor of HTML -- were proven to be utterly, completely Wrong.

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  10. Bah! by NinePenny · · Score: 5, Funny

    Back then, we used Gopher... And we liked it! These kids and their new fangled web thingy need to get off my lawn.

    1. Re:Bah! by Big+Ryan · · Score: 2, Funny

      ...and writing our email using Pine, uphill and in the driving snow.

      Remember the original grey background of webpages in Netscape 0.9?

    2. Re:Bah! by Amazing+Quantum+Man · · Score: 4, Funny

      And we had to walk 15 miles to send that email!

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  11. Informative! by syousef · · Score: 4, Funny

    I thought the least recently modified web page was actually my personal home page still held on my old University programmer's society account. Thanks for the clarification.

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  12. Re:Cool by ZachPruckowski · · Score: 2, Funny

    That's good. Now when my secretary sends me an Internets, it can drive a dumptruck through the tubes to my computer. That'll fix the clogged pipes problem.

  13. Re:Is she legal yet? by dysplay · · Score: 5, Funny

    A lot has happened in 16 years and this little 'baby' has grown into quite the teenager.

    And like most teenagers, has an over-abundant collection of porn.

  14. Re:Aww, sweet 16 and never been kissed? by zptao · · Score: 2, Funny

    So what kind of Sweet 16 party are you going to have? Going to get a ferrari cake?

  15. Re:Is she legal yet? by plantman-the-womb-st · · Score: 3, Funny

    One word. Fallopian.

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  16. My Super Sweet 16 by mattwarden · · Score: 3, Funny

    Time for a little party? Who's up for mortgaging their house to fund it?

  17. First web page by DaveM753 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I would have thought the first web page would have said "Under Construction".

  18. Teenagers by g00z · · Score: 2, Funny

    A lot has happened in 16 years and this little 'baby' has grown into quite the teenager.

    And like most teenagers, it's preoccupied with pornography.

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  19. Standards! Standards! Where are the standards! by AdamKG · · Score: 2, Funny

    Try running the W3C Validator on that woozy.

    Sheesh. Some people have no respect for standards...

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  20. Re:Is she legal yet? by drinkypoo · · Score: 2, Funny
    how would you do it with a series of tubes?

    One word: fleshlight. Of course, that's also only one tube, but it's a starting point...

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  21. Re:Oldest server still serving by radu.stanca · · Score: 5, Funny
    The longest-serving web server (the search engine behind the current celt.ucc.ie) was the 9th web server in the world and it's still sitting there, still serving the project it was bought for. Something of a two-edged sword: kudos to Sun for making a machine that has never crashed and never dropped a bit, and to Tim Bray for the PAT search engine which runs on it; but a victim of its own success in that it's only now being scheduled for replacement as the project moves from SGML to XML.


    Posting to Slashdot a link to to a web-server hosted on ~15 years old hardware? PRICELESS
  22. Re:Al Gore invented it 16 years ago? by WilliamSChips · · Score: 5, Funny

    The. Internet. Is. Not. The. World. Wide. Web.
    Now write that on a board 50 million times.

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  23. Re:Is she legal yet? by Kent+Simon · · Score: 5, Funny

    Don't bother man, everyone and their grandmother has been on her, and if you aren't careful you can catch a virus ;)

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  24. 16, eh? by proxy318 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Two more years. I'd hit it.

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  25. DNF by xPhoenix · · Score: 2, Funny
    last changed Tue, 13 Nov 1990 15:17:00 GMT
    I can't seem to find the URL anywhere, but I could have sworn that the page announcing plans for Duke Nukem Forever was at least a few days older...
  26. Re:Shame... by qzulla · · Score: 2, Funny
    Cool! The first example of teh is here.

    qz

  27. And like all teenagers, it's obsessed with porn. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    The Internet is for porn
    The Internet is for porn
    Hold your dick and double-click for porn, porn, porn...

  28. The "XXX" Project.html by friendswelcome · · Score: 2, Funny

    http://www.w3.org/History/19921103-hypertext/hyper text/WWW/MarkUp/Tags.html#20
    A NAME=xxx HREF=XXX
    They new what it would be used for, those sly dogs!

  29. Re:Well, you can still see it. by Albert+Sandberg · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm working on it! (but got stuck on slashdot for some reason)