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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."
Has Netcraft confirmed this?
Legal? I'm sure she could teach you a thing or two!
:P
Everything I never wanted to know about sex I learned on the Internets.
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although I'm not certain how outdated it is, the 1992-11-03 seems to be encouraging.
In 1993 on a University VAX my bet would of been Gopherspace. It had Archie and Veronica for godsake!!
Thank you Al Gore. He's the most important man of the 21st century, hands down.
Back then, we used Gopher... And we liked it! These kids and their new fangled web thingy need to get off my lawn.
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.
I would have thought the first web page would have said "Under Construction".
Posting to Slashdot a link to to a web-server hosted on ~15 years old hardware? PRICELESS
The. Internet. Is. Not. The. World. Wide. Web.
Now write that on a board 50 million times.
Please, for the good of Humanity, vote Obama.
Don't bother man, everyone and their grandmother has been on her, and if you aren't careful you can catch a virus ;)
Kent Simon Multitheft Auto
I think you are correct in saying that "We are the web". It is true. The web is a reflection of humanity. In represents mankind, warts and all.
However, because of that I wouldn't want to call the web a utopia. It is a communications mechanism, but it can't fix our flaws, it reveals them.
... 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://