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CERN Celebrates 20 Years of an Open Web (and Rebuilds 1st Web Page)

Posted by timothy on from the well-it's-done-okay dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Twenty years ago CERN published a statement that made the World Wide Web ('W3,' or simply 'the web') technology available on a royalty-free basis. By making the software required to run a web server freely available, along with a basic browser and a library of code, the web was allowed to flourish." Reader Rambo Tribble adds that CERN "is recreating the very first web page to ever exist. Included in the effort are plans to use the original hardware, as well as software, that gave birth to our beloved WWW."

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  1. And this page will be by ganjadude · · Score: 4, Funny
    slashdotted in a matter of seconds

    plans to use the original hardware, as well as software,

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    1. Re:And this page will be by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · · Score: 4, Funny

      Are there actually any exploits available for NEXTstep on 68030?

      I don't doubt that vulnerabilities exist; but that's a platform that, er, makes Amiga look like a contender...

  2. Next Project by hduff · · Score: 3, Funny

    The first porn site restored . . .

    Surely, this is archived somewhere.

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    1. Re:Next Project by tgd · · Score: 3, Insightful

      The first porn site restored . . .

      Surely, this is archived somewhere.

      The first porn site would far pre-date this -- there were plenty of "story" porn sites running on Gopher servers, FTP sites, BBS sites running via telnet, newsgroups.

      The Internet was full of porn for a very long time before HTTP came around.

  3. Re:I wonder whether Lamar Smith by Antipater · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Who gives a fuck what some luser thinks?

    I do, and you should too.

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  4. Should they be thanked for this? by whizbang77045 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Should we thank them, or go looking for some tar and feathers?

  5. Journalists by onyxruby · · Score: 3, Interesting

    How long until ignorant journalists start claiming the Internet is 20 years old today?

  6. Direct link to the site by tocsy · · Score: 5, Informative

    Here: http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html

  7. Re:Arg by Microlith · · Score: 4, Informative

    He isn't credited with creating the internet. He's credited with creating the WWW.

  8. Re:Experience of the first ever webpage by SuricouRaven · · Score: 3, Funny

    If you miss dancing hamsters, you need to improve your aim.

  9. Re:timothy, QUIT IT, YOU FLAMING MORON by K.+S.+Kyosuke · · Score: 4, Funny

    QUIT USING PARENTHESES EVERYWHERE. Did you fourth grade teacher instruct you on ANYTHING? ... From where did you graduate? Bovine University?

    He probably graduated from MIT, the AI Lab.

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