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The Web Is 16 Today
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."
You can still see a version of TheProject.html at
r text/WWW/TheProject.html
http://www.w3.org/History/19921103-hypertext/hype
although I'm not certain how outdated it is, the 1992-11-03 seems to be encouraging.
I guess it is mirrored here:
r text/WWW/TheProject.html
http://www.w3.org/History/19921103-hypertext/hype
Hey, Nov. 13 is my birthday! (Happy birthday to me...) The WWW and I were born on the same day! Well, this explains a lot!
... but.. credit WAS his. Al Gore was the first or surely among the first of the members of Congress to become a strong supporter of advanced networking while he served as Senator. As far back as 1986, he was holding hearings on this subject (supercomputing, fiber networks...) and asking about their promise and what could be done to realize them. It was clear that as a Senator and as Vice President, Gore has made it a point to be as well-informed as possible on technology and issues that surround it.
w ww.mids.org/mn/904/vcerf.html with modifications.
Al Gore has played a powerful role in policy terms that has supported its continued growth and application, for which we should be thankful. As Vice President, he has been very responsive to recommendations made, for example, by the President's Information Technology Advisory Committee that endorsed additional research funding for next generation fundamental research in software and related topics.
We're fortunate to have leaders like Al Gore who embrace new technology and have the vision to see how it can be put to work for national and global benefit.
In my opinion to not acknowledge the great benefits and give credit for intelligent leadership shown by polititions like Al Gore, leads to poor choices and bad decisions being played out for decades to come.
Give the man his due, thank him for pushing intelligent policy.
Quotes taken from http://web.archive.org/web/20000125065813/http://
Oh, c'mon, it's an HTML document, not an XHTML document. Let's see how it does in the latest version of HTML... Oh, look, it validates.
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What does it mean to "create the internet"? Obviously TCP/IP existed before Al Gore came on the scene, but back then it was called the NSFnet (and ARPAnet before that) and only really became the "Internet" as we know it after it was opened up to the community at large and not just limited military/university access. Who was it that pushed for research money to be put into the NSFnet? Al Gore. Who was it that pushed the initiative in congress to open it up to the community at large? Al Gore.
Do yourself a favor and find out what actually was said and what really happened. If you believe the trash that's on TV and most newspapers then you're only getting the spin.