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The world's first website went online 25 years ago today
Telegraph UK ^ | August 6, 2016 | By Cara McGoogan

Posted on 08/06/2016 11:25:41 AM PDT by Swordmaker


Today marks the 25 anniversary of Sir Tim Berners-Lee launching the first website CREDIT: AP

On this day 25 years ago the world's first website went live to the public. The site, created by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, was a basic text page with hyperlinked words that connected to other pages.

Berners-Lee used the public launch to outline his plan for the service, which would come to dominate life in the twenty-first century.

"The WWW project merges the techniques of information retrieval and hypertext to make an easy but powerful global information system," said Berners-Lee on the world's first public website. "The project started with the philosophy that much academic information should be freely available to anyone."

Berners-Lee wanted the World Wide Web to be a place where people could share information across the world through documents and links navigated with a simple search function.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: anniversary; applepinglist; internet; manbearpig; windowspinglist; www
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To: Swordmaker

Anybody still use a Gopher? :)


21 posted on 08/06/2016 11:53:03 AM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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To: Mr. Jeeves
Gopher?


22 posted on 08/06/2016 11:53:59 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: CopperTop

Gun shot wound

=:^O


23 posted on 08/06/2016 12:04:56 PM PDT by omegatoo (You know you'll get your money's worth...become a monthly donor!)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
I’ve heard that the world wide web is actually just one part of the internet. People used these terms interchangeably, but , I’ve heard that the web is just one part of the internet structure.

That is true. The World Wide Web is kind of the GUI for the internet, which had already existed for years before the WWW. The internet should be thought of as the infrastructure of sending data from node to node. Software applications are built on top of that layer. WWW and browsers simply use the infrastructure to display information graphically across the internet.

Email used the internet before the WWW, as well as file transfer protocols like FTP. There was a bulletin board application called Usenet, which had a lot of forums, some not unlike Free Republic.

24 posted on 08/06/2016 12:06:05 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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To: Swordmaker

But he had no hits because nobody else was online.

I imagine it was hard for Edison to sell that first light bulb with the sales pitch being “We promise to turn it on one of these days.”


25 posted on 08/06/2016 12:08:51 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican ("...if it is of God, you cannot overthrow it..." Acts 5:39)
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To: Donglalinger
I used to get online with my Commodore 64 long before that.

So did I, but that was connecting to BBSes, Bulleting Board Systems, privately operated computers that could allow one, or possible two dial in calls at a time, not multiple users to access the page simultaneously by dial-up, Ethernet, or other means. I was the substitute SYSOP for one in Stockton, CA, when the owner went on vacation, called "The Wrong Number" back in the 1980s.

26 posted on 08/06/2016 12:12:51 PM PDT by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Then Al ate the internet.


27 posted on 08/06/2016 12:15:21 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: CaptainK

You certain it wasn’t a solitaire site?


28 posted on 08/06/2016 12:22:18 PM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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To: Vince Ferrer

I used Fidonet and IIRC several mail programs like PINE.


29 posted on 08/06/2016 12:36:38 PM PDT by prisoner6 (Unmutual and Disharmonious)
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To: prisoner6

I remember going “on-line” with my Tandy Color Computer using an external 300 baud dial-up modem. The service was StarText and it had forums similar to this one and news provided by the Star Telegram.
Later, on a PC, using the Mosaic browser to look at Gopher sites, as there was practically no WWW pages to look at. Those Gopher sites had tons of great info.


30 posted on 08/06/2016 12:58:38 PM PDT by Dalberg-Acton
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To: Swordmaker

Bah humbug, the real future is analog.


31 posted on 08/06/2016 12:59:10 PM PDT by TheNext (Hillary Hurts Children & Women)
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To: Swordmaker

I remember when I had seen the opening ceremony for the 2012 summer olympics in London on tv. When the London production mentioned Mr. Lee’s name, I thought that it the USA that invented the WWW. Turned out while America invented the internet, it was the British who invented the WWW.


32 posted on 08/06/2016 1:00:58 PM PDT by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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To: Swordmaker
Everyone remember the seemingly endless BBS debates about how long it would take WWW to be overrun by commercialism ? !

Was fortunate enough to have exchanged a couple emails with TBL right at the start.

What a ceaselessly amazing thing this is !

33 posted on 08/06/2016 1:02:04 PM PDT by tomkat (PC > we kill it, or it kills US)
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To: Swordmaker

He would be much more famous if he just used his simple name: Tim Lee.

Anyone remember the name of the inventor of tv? No. His name is difficult. Philo T.

Thomas Edison. Graham Bell. Easy names to remember.


34 posted on 08/06/2016 1:04:59 PM PDT by Falconspeed ("Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others." Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-94))
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To: Swordmaker

Coincidentally, that is the exact same time the first SPAM arrived in people’s email.


35 posted on 08/06/2016 1:05:03 PM PDT by Leep (Cut the crap!)
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To: Dalberg-Acton

Sample from StarText:

( 1/05/90-11:21 am)
The StarTexan’s Forum
Volume 7, Number 5 - Friday, January 5, 1990
Copyright (c) 1989, StarText
Moderator/Editor: William (Bill) Manly
Mail Code: FORUM
Size of this update 5,945 Bytes
See the FORUMBIOS keyword for the biographies of regular column participants.
-——*
Current topics:
1. Answering Fan Mail (if I were on fire, they’d fan me)
2. Short Bytes
-——*


36 posted on 08/06/2016 1:05:39 PM PDT by Dalberg-Acton
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To: Dalberg-Acton

Coco yes! Also used Timex Sinclair and Tom Mix Software.


37 posted on 08/06/2016 1:22:18 PM PDT by prisoner6 (Unmutual and Disharmonious)
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To: Swordmaker

In the early 1800s there was a group of Japanese scholars who realized that fairly soon Japan was going to be opened to the world, and so they decided to learn how to speak Dutch, since the one European country that had been allowed to deal with Japan since the 1600s was Holland; they called themselves the Dutch Studies Movement. They diligently taught themselves how to speak, read, and write Dutch, so that they would be available to help Japan enter the globalist 19th century. Then Japan was indeed opened up to the world, but by America, and all the Dutch-speaking Japanese scholars were stuck with a useless-to-them language, and had to start all over again learning how to speak English.

In the late 1980s, I made myself learn how to use, run, and design a BBS, because I realized that fairly soon computerized telecommunications would become commonplace and I wanted to be on the forefront of using it in higher education. I even designed a few educational DOS-based programs for the introductory courses I was teaching, and convinced my college to set aside a computer with a 14400 modem and a dedicated line, so I could design and teach two courses on BBS (Mustang Wildcat 4). When I was told in the early 90s about the WWW, I thought it was a fad that would never catch on. By the time my then-fifth-grade son was designing his own web pages in 1995, I felt very much like the Dutch Studies Movement, and have spent the last two decades like everyone else in the online education biz, scrambling to keep up with the perpetually changing web software and androgogical implications.


38 posted on 08/06/2016 1:25:56 PM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: Swordmaker

Shortly after this event happened, I got a call from a fellow former MBA student, saying this would be the hottest thing to ever hit the market.

We had kids in higher learning or finishing and minimal money to invest.

However,my company’s 401K had ETF’s which I preferred, and I could buy for my wife’s self managed IRA both via Fido. We had some QQQ and it was going up like crazy before this event.

So I traded the S&P etfs and some stagnant mutual funds for QQQ. It continued to go up, and I changed the stop sell orders at least a month to cover the new gains.

Fortunately, our stop sell orders protected us from the Clintoon internet bust and saved most of our gains. We have been back and forth with lesser amounts since the Bushco/Obama bust.

I can’t imagine not having the internet for FR, texting, emails, buying and selling stuff and everyday use.


39 posted on 08/06/2016 1:29:06 PM PDT by Grampa Dave ((My passion for freedom is stronger than that of Democrats whose obsession is to enslave me.))
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To: Dilbert San Diego
I’ve heard that the world wide web is actually just one part of the internet. People used these terms interchangeably, but , I’ve heard that the web is just one part of the internet structure.

It's true. The "Web" is just the world of web browsers talking to each other, and browsers are just a kind of app on the internet which mainly communicate through the HTML language.

40 posted on 08/06/2016 1:33:56 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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