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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. 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

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

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

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

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

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

  7. 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
  8. 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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    Please, for the good of Humanity, vote Obama.
  9. 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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    Kent Simon Multitheft Auto