[Alas Babylon!]

Bwahahaha!

Quote:

The history of the Internet

The first web page was created at CERN by Tim Berners-Lee on August 6, 1991. You can visit and browse the first website and the first web page at the http://info.cern.ch/ address.

I think Free Republic went live in 1997, as the White Water Chronicles or such.

I had just PCSed from Ramstein AB, Germany back to the states. Been lurking since then, finally signed up 20 years ago. .

[gnarledmaw]

How long were you there? We may have been stationed there together!

[Cicero]

It wasn’t a web site in the later sense in its first years, of course. But it first came onto the early versions of the internet around the time Clinton was elected.

See this article here, which suggests around 1992.

I never would have heard of it if not for that vicious attack in the New York Time, which put me on to it.

I think I had a 64K computer at the time. No hard drive.

[Cvengr]

BBS bulletin boards before the Web sites abounded.

Remember all those aol.com CDs that hung around. We thumb tacked them to the walls for target practice.