On this date in 1991 Tim Berners Lee gave us the first description of the World Wide Web (www.w3.org)
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DandomRude@lemmy.world on 06 Aug 2023 16:20 next collapse

Hello world, this is the first website

uphillbothways@kbin.social on 06 Aug 2023 20:41 next collapse

your comment originally only said "Hello world" when I made my comment above, you edited it after that.

fuser@quex.cc on 06 Aug 2023 21:23 collapse

Scrolling back through the original news archives is pretty interesting info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/News/9211.html there’s a link at the bottom of each for “previous edition”.

uphillbothways@kbin.social on 06 Aug 2023 18:29 next collapse

http://info.cern.ch - home of the first website

maporita@unilem.org on 06 Aug 2023 20:36 collapse

From the overview:

“The project is based on the philosophy that much academic information should be freely available to anyone. It aims to allow information sharing within internationally dispersed teams, and the dissemination of information by support groups.”.

Now it seems most of it is taken up by TikTok videos of someone’s pet poodle

kernelle@lemmy.ml on 06 Aug 2023 22:56 next collapse

The fediverse is the perfect example of how social media should be implemented following Sir Tim Berners-Lee’s vision when creating the WWW. That’s why this feels like pre-2010 internet!

LongbottomLeaf@lemmy.nz on 07 Aug 2023 01:09 next collapse

Thanks for this! I had to look some things up.

Daemon (computing)

Maxwell’s demon

Which brought meaning to eps1.3_da3m0ns.mp4

TIL about eudaemonia when reading about the history of the internet.

davefischer@beehaw.org on 09 Aug 2023 14:40 collapse

I remember the first time I heard about the web. My exact response was: “That sounds like a waste of bandwidth.”

Ha ha. Oops.

(In the early 90s I was completely obsessed with usenet. The graphical nature of web pages seemed like a terrible idea to me.)