World wide web inventor uses anniversary to campaign for internet rules

uk.news.yahoo.com ^ | 12/25/2015 | unknown

[rktman]

The world's first website went live 25 years ago today.

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the world wide web, and Belgian computer scientist Robert Cailliau communicated between a web browser and a webserver for the first time on Christmas Day 1990

[rktman]

Uh, WHAT? Sounds like algore has a massive law suit ready to gin up against this johnny come lately who claims to have invented the internet. How dare he. Not really much of a "Love Story" here. :>)

Merry Christmas.

[Hulka]

Hah. . .good one.

[Telepathic Intruder]

Al Gore would hardly want a “Magna Carta” to protect the independence and privacy of internet users. More likely he’d want to tax and screen users for “terrorist” (i.e. conservative) thoughts.

[upchuck]

We’ve come a long way in 25 years.

[smokingfrog]

Albert created the high speed internet.

[Sasparilla]

Yep. It looked like a story about big Al.

[dhs12345]

I thought that it originated with the US military. The public implementation was later.

[rktman]

DARPA, if I remember correctly, for mil usage. No doubt someone will notify us if I “mis-remembered”. :>)

Merry Christmas dhs12345

[tophat9000]

There talking about browsers, HTTP ,HTML, WWW servers.....the most common service on the Internet....not the Internet itself

[Fiddlstix]

The World Wide Web Born At Project CERN


Click The Pic To Enlarge View

[dhs12345]

Just as long as they make the distinction.

Many great technological developments came from the US military and the space race.

[Fiddlstix]

The "WEB" is but a part of the whole Internet. WWW utilizes port 80 for HTTPd protocol. There are 65535 possible ports for internet usage.
For instance, ports 20,21 are FTP protocol. Port 25 is SMPT. Port 79 is for the old finger servers hardly used anymore.
Port 110 is POP3 service. Ports 6667-7000 are generally used by IRC servers.
You can use a search engine to find more info.

[Jack Hydrazine]

“Port 79 is for the old finger servers hardly used anymore.”

Why not? It’s important for us conservatives to still be able to give the finger to Leftists electronically!

[Lisbon1940]

Berners-Lee did his work on a NeXT workstation.

[Fiddlstix]

ROTFL!!!!

The old finger service would publish personal info. Not good these days. That's why it's not used

[Fiddlstix]

The Original WWW Logo


Click The Logo For History Of WWW

[USS Alaska]

We've come a long way in 25 years.

Crap, closer to 40 years. I was selling to AT&T in the mid 70s and they were utilizing unix {OS} protocols that many universities were experimenting with free off shoots of unix.

The DARPA-NET, was the forerunner of the internet and there was college kid in Chicago that really started what is now called the internet. He went commercial, but didn't last too long. That was in the late 80s when tcp/ip went into wide spread usage and was the basis of the commercial internet.

[Fiddlstix]

.... That was in the late 80s when tcp/ip went into wide spread usage and was the basis of the commercial internet.

Yep. Remember "Archie" before the WWW? And Gopher...But Gopher hit right about the same time as HTTP. WWW basically killed those.

UNIX and the 'nix variants have been around since back in the 1970's

[dhs12345]

That is the standard that was developed later right before it was adopted publicaly The original “internet” was designed as a secure communication methodology for the military.

[Fiddlstix]

Yes indeed it was. It was a direct result of the “Cuban missile crisis” back in 1962. At least that’s the date many people say was the true beginning of what came to be todays internet