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The first-ever web page is still up at its original URL
Cern — Usenet ^
| August 6, 1991
| Tim Berners-Lee
Posted on 11/07/2015 8:22:46 PM PST by Swordmaker
This is literally the start of the World Wide Web. This is Tim Berners-Lee's very first Web Page. The FIRST Web Page ever. . . the literal starting point of the Internet.
It still exists as Tim Berners-Lee wrote it. On August 6, 1991, Tim Berners-Lee posted in the Usenet group alt.hypertext about a project he was working on called the World Wide Web--or, as he referred to it, "W3," a shorthand that surprisingly never caught on. The first webpage is still there at its original address on the CERN high-energy physics lab's site, substantially unchanged--no background, no graphics, just plain text and some links to other information about the nascent Web.
The Project: World Wide Web
TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Education; History
KEYWORDS: applepinglist; g42; internet; windowspinglist
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To: ADemocratNoMore; FourPeas
No More Dem- Found some funny stuff in there, but FourPeas has saved the day.
FourPeas- THAT’S IT! THAT’S IT! You are my absolute hero! I’m going to put a link on a flash drive next thing. Thank you so much!! lolol can’t wait to read it again.
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posted on
11/08/2015 2:55:10 AM PST
by
KGeorge
(Make America Great Again- Ahead of Schedule & Under Budget.)
To: Exit148
Who coined LOL?
When was the first IBTZ? The first just had to be a texting Valley girl! The second obviously was an observant, anticipatory Freeper awaiting the Viking Kittehs!
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posted on
11/08/2015 3:39:22 AM PST
by
Swordmaker
( This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue....)
To: Freedom_Fighter_2001
Is it loading slow or is it just me? blazing fast 300 baud dial up Perhaps it hasn't had as much traffic in years as the amount brought to it by my bringing it to the attention of all of us Freepers. . . Grin!
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posted on
11/08/2015 3:41:52 AM PST
by
Swordmaker
( This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue....)
To: Swordmaker
Brings back memories. I remember “surfing” (mid-90’s, maybe?) meant zero video, some graphics, and very little music or ads.
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posted on
11/08/2015 3:45:33 AM PST
by
P.O.E.
(Pray for America)
To: TBP
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posted on
11/08/2015 3:48:13 AM PST
by
Swordmaker
( This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue....)
To: matt1234
When I saw my first amazon.com sign, I assumed they sold clothes to large and tall women. I thought it was another porn site!
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posted on
11/08/2015 3:49:30 AM PST
by
Swordmaker
( This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue....)
To: Swordmaker; rdb3; Calvinist_Dark_Lord; JosephW; Only1choice____Freedom; amigatec; ...
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posted on
11/08/2015 4:51:15 AM PST
by
ShadowAce
(Linux - The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: Swordmaker
First-ever web page is also the last-ever to not have a hand out.
To: Swordmaker
What if at the begging of the WWW they got it all wrong and this is the crap we wound up with.
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posted on
11/08/2015 5:02:42 AM PST
by
PoloSec
( Believe the Gospel: how that Christ died for our sins, was buried and rose again)
To: ClearCase_guy
Wow! That from before they invented porn!To some, that is porn.
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posted on
11/08/2015 5:53:45 AM PST
by
IncPen
(Not one single patriot in Washington, DC.)
To: 21twelve
I thought the punch cards were better than the paper tape...until you dropped them, anyway.
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posted on
11/08/2015 5:56:54 AM PST
by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
To: Swordmaker
I remember something about this. Got on web in that year under guidance from head computer geek friend at Brazil’s 2nd largest university.
By 1992 I was doing email and business with the university over the internet selling their computer dept. PC’s and hardware........
Sometime in there I joined Compuserve which was one of the first ways to connect to the internet. I think a 2400 baud modem was considered fast then.....
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posted on
11/08/2015 6:34:56 AM PST
by
Arlis
( A "Sacred Cow" Tipping Christian)
To: 21twelve
8700 baud (1988-89 CompuServe BBS), receiver in the cradle, was a lot of fun.
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posted on
11/08/2015 6:36:41 AM PST
by
Carriage Hill
( The cheddar cheese slid off my cracker on 11/6/12.)
To: JRandomFreeper
I guess WW III just wouldn’t sell.
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posted on
11/08/2015 6:38:47 AM PST
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: Swordmaker
There must be some kind of mistake...
I clicked the “people” involved link and looked at the list. Al Gore was no where to be found.
Curious!
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posted on
11/08/2015 6:42:34 AM PST
by
Triple
(Socialism denies people the right to the fruits of their labor, and is as abhorrent as slavery)
To: martin_fierro
That netscape icon was certainly mesmerizing. Seems my start to web use was about '93 or so I guess.
Of course I was using BBS', which were the precursors to the web as far back as 1988.
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posted on
11/08/2015 6:50:36 AM PST
by
catfish1957
(I display the Confederate Battle Flag with pride in honor of my brave ancestors who fought w/ valor)
To: carriage_hill
8700 baud (1988-89 CompuServe BBS), receiver in the cradle, was a lot of fun.Still can memorize that cranking buzzing sound to this date. Used to piss my wife off keeping the phone tied up. Friends and family swore we kept the phone off the hook. :)
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posted on
11/08/2015 6:53:34 AM PST
by
catfish1957
(I display the Confederate Battle Flag with pride in honor of my brave ancestors who fought w/ valor)
To: ClearCase_guy
‘Pron’ was being spread via localized BBS’s then.
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posted on
11/08/2015 6:54:48 AM PST
by
TomGuy
To: Swordmaker
Almost looks like FR. It probably has more user features though.
;^p
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posted on
11/08/2015 7:04:45 AM PST
by
KoRn
(Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum.....)
To: Swordmaker
And, on the ‘People’ page under Tim Berners-Lee’s entry, the internet’s first typo! Heh!
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posted on
11/08/2015 7:15:27 AM PST
by
W.
(I piss fire and acid upon the militant muslims as they pray to their baby-raping god!)
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