That’s not the first webpage, the first webpage is obviously the one Al Gore made which states “I Created the internets”
Can’t be real. I clicked on the “People” link and Al Gore wasn’t listed.
/snark
PS They even kept the original typos!
:-( The jargon link doesnt work. Sooo disappointed because someone posted an early, early link (mid 90s) to an illustrated glossary- in cartoon style- of internet personality types & it was a scream. I lost the bookmark when my hard drive had to be replaced.
I’ll never find it again. It was in a comment on a volcano forum during the Bardabunga eruptions. (Hint hint. If anyone has this…pleeeease!)
bfl
Very cool!
What’s the web address?
Al Gore WAS there
“the literal starting point of the Internet”
Oh hogwash! That’s like saying the Apple II was the literal starting point of the personal computer.
There was plenty of internet before the WWW as anyone with the ability to read knows. So who still uses usenet? Or maintains a Gopher site?
When I saw my first amazon.com sign, I assumed they sold clothes to large and tall women.
06 August 1991...
Exactly 46 years after the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima.
Click bait!
Websites used to be so laughably crude. So they seem in retrospect but then peering at them through Internet Explorer 3, any nice looks would have been wasted
My first year on the internet, in 1997 yahoo.com was especially crude, ominous and ugly. Black type set against a grey background. It was depressing to go there. Why they used a grey background...??? Were the yahoo boys on drugs?
All the UFO sites and Art Bell type sites (crop circles, prophecy, predictions etc) had a spooky black background. Some still do (lulz)
Altavista was the best search engine!!! Compaq paid a billion for it.
We hear about the number of lost films/movies dating before 1950.
I’d wager that more than 50% of all webpages since 1994 no longer exist.
Brings back memories. I remember “surfing” (mid-90’s, maybe?) meant zero video, some graphics, and very little music or ads.
First-ever web page is also the last-ever to not have a hand out.
What if at the begging of the WWW they got it all wrong and this is the crap we wound up with.
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.....
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!