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The Web Is 16 Today
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kdawson
on Mon Nov 13, 2006 06:15 PM
from the raise-a-glass dept.
from the raise-a-glass dept.
GuNgA-DiN writes, "Today marks the 16th anniversary of the World Wide Web. According to the timeline on the W3.org site: 'The first web page [was] http://nxoc01.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html. Unfortunately CERN no longer supports the historical site. Note from this era too, the least recently modified web page we know of, last changed Tue, 13 Nov 1990 15:17:00 GMT (though the URI changed.)' A lot has happened in 16 years and this little 'baby' has grown into quite the teenager."
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Confirmed? (Score:5, Funny)
(http://www.aedanmcg....ch/win_switcher.html)
Re:Confirmed? (Score:5, Interesting)
(Last Journal: Thursday August 23, @11:40AM)
Well, the content is still the original one and (surprise!) is still almost 100% valid HTML 4.01 Transitional! I kid you not: try it for yourself [w3.org]!
The only missing thing is the DOCTYPE declaration, but everything else is just fine: call it a tribute to the incredible backward/forward/whatever compatibility and flexibility of HTML!
Is she legal yet? (Score:1)
Re:Is she legal yet? (Score:5, Funny)
Everything I never wanted to know about sex I learned on the Internets.
Re:Is she legal yet? (Score:5, Funny)
And like most teenagers, has an over-abundant collection of porn.
Re:Is she legal yet? (Score:5, Funny)
(http://www.mtavc.com/)
Re:Is she legal yet? (Score:4, Funny)
(http://if-you-dont-smoke-you-still-die.com/)
Does this mean we get a John Water's movie? (Score:3, Funny)
Well, you can still see it. (Score:5, Informative)
http://www.w3.org/History/19921103-hypertext/hype
although I'm not certain how outdated it is, the 1992-11-03 seems to be encouraging.
Re:Well, you can still see it. (Score:5, Interesting)
(http://dotfuturemanifesto.blogspot.com/)
Meh ... it will never take off (Score:5, Insightful)
Shame... (Score:1)
(http://www.ibjhb.com/ | Last Journal: Tuesday May 04 2004, @07:05AM)
Thanks Al Gore (Score:5, Funny)
Re:BUT SNOPES SAYS!!!!!!11!!! (Score:5, Informative)
Al Gore has played a powerful role in policy terms that has supported its continued growth and application, for which we should be thankful. As Vice President, he has been very responsive to recommendations made, for example, by the President's Information Technology Advisory Committee that endorsed additional research funding for next generation fundamental research in software and related topics.
We're fortunate to have leaders like Al Gore who embrace new technology and have the vision to see how it can be put to work for national and global benefit.
In my opinion to not acknowledge the great benefits and give credit for intelligent leadership shown by polititions like Al Gore, leads to poor choices and bad decisions being played out for decades to come.
Give the man his due, thank him for pushing intelligent policy.
Quotes taken from http://web.archive.org/web/20000125065813/http://
Oh, My Gawd, Now You've Done It! (Score:5, Funny)
(http://bcgreen.com/~samuel | Last Journal: Friday April 30 2004, @02:42PM)
Cool (Score:1)
(http://tarlus.homeip.net:12345/)
Teenager ? TEENAGER ? (Score:5, Insightful)
(http://www.webgeekworld.com/ | Last Journal: Thursday April 27 2006, @07:47AM)
It has become a connection that binds us who are all over the world, it has become a revealer of truth that uncovers the hiddens in the doings of wrongdoers, it has become a place that chinese and canadian and namesoever teenagers come play in, it has become a place where we can find anything in, it is reshaping politics, nations, lives, even inner thoughts of people.
'It' is actually 'us'. We are the web.
Welcome to utopia being realized
Re:Teenager ? TEENAGER ? (Score:5, Insightful)
However, because of that I wouldn't want to call the web a utopia. It is a communications mechanism, but it can't fix our flaws, it reveals them.
Remembering SGML (Score:5, Funny)
(http://www.dixie-chicks.com/ | Last Journal: Tuesday July 24, @05:17PM)
I wasn't terribly impressed. Sure, it was cool to be able to add "hyper links" to other parts of the document, or to other documents, but the conversion process would be murder. And tables! What was all this TR TH TD mishmash, just to make a simple table?
My recommendation: Why doesn't everyone just use Microsoft Word format? It's available to everyone, and it's not like the internal format is going to change or anything!
Thank goodness I was working somewhere else by the time my first thoughts on SGML -- the precursor of HTML -- were proven to be utterly, completely Wrong.
Bah! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Bah! (Score:5, Funny)
(http://www.geocities.com/theLICC)
Informative! (Score:5, Funny)
Wow (Score:2, Informative)
(http://www.lgrinberg.org/)
My First Home Page (Score:2)
(http://opine-editorials.blogspot.com/ | Last Journal: Monday August 20, @02:04PM)
I still get a kick out of searching for "my first home page" to find old snapshots of early internet splendor.
don't forget the first photo ever on the web (Score:5, Interesting)
(http://circletimessquare.com/)
My Super Sweet 16 (Score:4, Funny)
(http://mattwarden.com/)
First web page (Score:5, Funny)
(http://www.yeahblah.com/)
Teenagers (Score:2, Funny)
(http://stephenkozik.com/)
And like most teenagers, it's preoccupied with pornography.
So is Gopher! (Score:1)
Standards! Standards! Where are the standards! (Score:2, Funny)
(http://adam.gomaa.us/)
Sheesh. Some people have no respect for standards...
Re:Standards! Standards! Where are the standards! (Score:4, Informative)
Heh. Remember the huge debate over (Score:2)
How'd that ever work out anyway?
How much money has been spent... (Score:2)
(http://danlipsy.tk/)
least recently modified (Score:1)
(Last Journal: Monday April 17 2006, @05:11PM)
<title>Hypertext Links</title>
<h1>Links and Anchors</h1>
A link is the connection between one piece of
<a href=WhatIs.html>hypertext</a> and another.
Oldest server still serving (Score:5, Interesting)
(http://silmaril.ie/cgi-bin/blog)
Re:Oldest server still serving (Score:5, Funny)
(http://www.starlog.ro/)
Posting to Slashdot a link to to a web-server hosted on ~15 years old hardware? PRICELESS
OMG!! (Score:1)
Sweet 16!!! (Score:2)
Now, who do we designate to take the obligatory birthday spanking?
Al Gore invented it 16 years ago? (Score:2)
(http://www.perfectreign.com/)
Learn something new every day...
Re:Al Gore invented it 16 years ago? (Score:5, Funny)
(Last Journal: Tuesday January 30 2007, @08:29PM)
Now write that on a board 50 million times.
16, eh? (Score:4, Funny)
Better than Sweet 16... (Score:2)
Then we'll have a par-tay, let me tell you!
Age (Score:2)
(http://onphilosophy.wordpress.com/)
The web is 16??? (Score:2)
So where's the web-controlled car?
First post EVER! (Score:1)
Forget Gopher, remember Kermit? (Score:1, Insightful)
now those were the days... or PACX ?
now I really feel old. thanks!
PS - I *own* the computer that forged the final connection to make the internet complete!
the same system that email was first developed on.
DNF (Score:2, Funny)
(Last Journal: Wednesday April 20 2005, @07:48PM)
My house, my rules (Score:1)
(https://sourceforge.net/projects/glider-kernel | Last Journal: Wednesday May 23, @09:48AM)
Skynet / Internet ... (Score:2)
(http://www.unlimitedfx.com.au/)
Me too! (Score:1)
(http://cuteworkinggirls.com/ | Last Journal: Monday November 13 2006, @11:24PM)
And like all teenagers, it's obsessed with porn. (Score:1, Funny)
The Internet is for porn
Hold your dick and double-click for porn, porn, porn...
16 years and... (Score:1)
So what is the oldest continuous content? (Score:2)
(http://slashdot.org/ | Last Journal: Wednesday December 20 2006, @10:25AM)
Sites like photo.net [photo.net] date back to 1993 (13 years), but that's not the same as a single person chugging steadily for all 16. Anyone know of a creator who has hit their deadlines on the web for all 16 years?
I thought she just turned 15 recently? (Score:1)
Didn't the W.T.F. [slashdot.org] in August?
And a slightly more useful comment: shouldn't we have a couple related [slashdot.org] stories [slashdot.org] linked? (heh, they don't even agree on the Web's age, what to say about the day and month)
History? Who cares? (Score:2)
(http://kradeleet.com/)
This is why I hate people. What self-respecting scientific establishment would fail to maintain such a significant piece of modern technological history? Without even so much as a C record and redirect to a maintained hosted copy? Such a notion should not be difficult for the inventors of the first web server, suck though it may have.
Who wasn't online in 87? (Score:3, Interesting)
I was back in '81. Heck, I spent the 80's flame warring on GEnie and CompuServe, and paying by the hour to do it!
And then there was FidoNet.
And everyone's own homebrewed BBS software.
87? 87 was for the latecomers.
Re:Who wasn't online in 87? (Score:5, Interesting)
My usenet access came through a state university where I had a friend of a friend who was an admin.
I might be mis-remembering, but I don't think I had usenet directly until my netcom account.
And then when AOL got usenet! Ah the screams of pain! But it turned out usenet was too complicated for the AOL masses and it didn't matter all that much anyway.
Now usenet is essentially the same small group of people it was 10 years ago. The same exact people, in fact.
So that's good.
Re:Aww, sweet 16 and never been kissed? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Then why have I been online since 1987? (Score:1)
(http://www.yeahblah.com/)
Re:Then why have I been online since 1987? (Score:1)
Not offtopic, but shows misperceptions (Score:5, Insightful)
Most of us know that distributed networking goes back to the 60's or so, with ARPAnet. In fact, according to wikipedia (I feel a slight tinge of irony looking these details up), our beloved TCP/IP began taking shape in the early 70's and ARPAnet began using TCP/IP in 1983. Meanwhile, services like Compuserve began offering private dial-up networks, and augmented them with email in 1979. Usenet popped up at the same time. The BBS's started popping up in short succession.
So all this was in place by 1990 when Tim coined the term world wide web and created the first browser, but it is the experience of browsing inter(hyper)linked files that defines most people's understanding of the internet. I suppose it's fitting to consider the start of this, if any one event, as the birth of the world wide web.
I'd really like to see a more general timeline, showing the major steps forward from the first electronic computers, first networked computers, ARPAnet, Compuserve et al, TCP/IP, DNS (did DNS already exist when CERN posted their first page?), etc...along with brief descriptions of how each came to be, and maybe some way of conveying how these technologies all converged to create the internet we have today. Most "histories" of the internet I've seen are pretty scattered and it's hard to get a grasp of how things really came together. The wikipedia article [wikipedia.org], for example, barely discusses DNS and the sections aren't really tied together into a "big picture" of the internet.
Re:and already.. (Score:1)
Re:Aww, sweet 16 and never been kissed? (Score:1)
(http://cuteworkinggirls.com/ | Last Journal: Monday November 13 2006, @11:24PM)
Re:Hmmmmm..... (Score:1)
Why don't you go and hang around MySpace until you understand the basic concepts under discussion. That goes for every other retard that has posted in this thread and confused the Internet with the WWW.