The Web Is 16 Today

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."

Well, you can still see it.

[Umbrae]

You can still see a version of TheProject.html at

http://www.w3.org/History/19921103-hypertext/hyper text/WWW/TheProject.html [w3.org]

although I'm not certain how outdated it is, the 1992-11-03 seems to be encouraging.

Re:Shame...

[ibjhb]

I guess it is mirrored here:

http://www.w3.org/History/19921103-hypertext/hyper text/WWW/TheProject.html [w3.org]

Wow

[hahafaha]

Hey, Nov. 13 is my birthday! (Happy birthday to me...) The WWW and I were born on the same day! Well, this explains a lot!

Re:Wow

[hahafaha]

Thanks! I don't quite understand how this is offtopic. Mod's, you suck!

Re:BUT SNOPES SAYS!!!!!!11!!!

[Anonymous Coward]

... but.. credit WAS his. Al Gore was the first or surely among the first of the members of Congress to become a strong supporter of advanced networking while he served as Senator. As far back as 1986, he was holding hearings on this subject (supercomputing, fiber networks...) and asking about their promise and what could be done to realize them. It was clear that as a Senator and as Vice President, Gore has made it a point to be as well-informed as possible on technology and issues that surround it.

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://w ww.mids.org/mn/904/vcerf.html [archive.org] with modifications.

Re:Standards! Standards! Where are the standards!

[Zarel]

Oh, c'mon, it's an HTML document, not an XHTML document. Let's see how it does in the latest version of HTML [w3.org]... Oh, look, it validates.

Re:Confirmed?

[Anonymous Coward]

dada21 [slashdot.org] wrote this as part of a first post [slashdot.org] to this story [slashdot.org] earlier today.

The post generated some puzzled "looks" because it counted 833 (840 with subject) words (4,591/4,628 characters) of quite elegantly written drivel, which is pretty amazing even for a subscriber's first post. Aside from being obviously well thought out, there were no spelling errors, and near perfect and/or perfect grammar. It is what you would call "academic quality".

The story covered Steve Ballmer's recent trip to India and discussion with local Indians about FOSS. The poster's essay described his own contentions that Indian society is a less-than-ideal playground for FOSS.

It seems unlikely that he'd have such an essay prepared just in case a story regarding FOSS and India were to be submitted, but it also seems unlikely that he's so quick on the draw. I still have to proofread everything at least twice (and ALWAYS end up changing things at the last second; clarifying ideas, ensuring a consistent direction, adding anecdotes, removing redundancy, correcting grammar, et cetera) and I'd consider myself a well established writer with many years of experience. I type at roughly 140 WPM with near perfect accuracy, but I'm sure I couldn't have coughed up that report on the fly like that, even with Firefox's toy spellchecker. If it's authentic, my hat's off.

Accordingly, he was accused of being a shill for a proprietary software company (such as MS or Sun) and of being informed well ahead of time of the story's debut.

The original story submission came from "an anonymous reader".

Why this little tidbit turned up all of a sudden is mysterious indeed. My guess is someone trying to provoke dada21 in some harmless (but puzzling) way, or possibly dada21 trying to spark even more self-sensation.

Further info would be interesting, but not necessarily appreciated...
--
~An anonymous reader (who incidentally found said drivel quite worthless if not arrogant).

Re:BUT SNOPES SAYS!!!!!!11!!!

[sreilly]

What does it mean to "create the internet"? Obviously TCP/IP existed before Al Gore came on the scene, but back then it was called the NSFnet (and ARPAnet before that) and only really became the "Internet" as we know it after it was opened up to the community at large and not just limited military/university access. Who was it that pushed for research money to be put into the NSFnet? Al Gore. Who was it that pushed the initiative in congress to open it up to the community at large? Al Gore.

Do yourself a favor and find out what actually was said and what really happened. If you believe the trash that's on TV and most newspapers then you're only getting the spin.