Re: Happy Birthday, WWW

[Patty Winter]

I hadn't realized until I saw this story on BBC World News yesterday
that Tim B-L was using a NeXT machine!

The CERN folks and other helpers are trying to restore the first
websites. Here's the project URL:

http://first-website.web.cern.ch/

And here's the very first page, re-created:

http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html

I see on the software list that the Mac browser was "pre-alpha". :-)

http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/Status.html


Patty

[Matt Simpson]

Wow! I remember setting up my first website in 1994, on a Mac, using
macHTTP. Don't remember which model Mac or which level OS. I didn't
realize I was only a year behind the beginning of the web.

[Jolly Roger]

In article
<net-news69-FC974...@news.eternal-september.org>,

I still remember the NOMUG meeting where we all huddled around a Mac to
see what this "WWW" thing was all about. Fun times! : )

I've had Zippy, my trusty, old Mac SE/30, running MacHTTP serveing web
pages 24/7 for years now (taking occasional breaks due to the Texas heat
before the move) with a web camera pointed at the screen:

<http://zippy.kicks-ass.org:9997>

Zippy is currently still packed away in a box at the moment. One of
these days I'll let him out again. : )

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[Bread]

My first pass with html-enhanced content was on a big networked
filesystem, so rather than running an http server, I had the team
install web browsers and simply point to the right are of the
filesystem. Lots of file:/// stuff. Worked like a charm for a little
while. Switched to a full blown http server (and perl based CGI)
around mid '95.

OTOH, I was running a gopher server in '91 or '92 on a SunOS machine.

I'm pretty happy not to be doing any of that stuff anymore. It was too
easy for me to get sucked into the technology and distracted from the
content which was really the main point.

Hard to believe it's been that long. I remember the first time I saw a
URL on a billboard. That's when it started to seem "real world"
instead of confined to us eggheads and business intranet use.

[TaliesinSoft]

And regarding the World Wide Web it is amusing that the initials
selected used the only multi-sylabled letter in the alphabet and then
used it three times! A good fried of mine used to abbreviate that to
"dub dub dub".

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[Király]

In comp.sys.mac.system Bread <BreadW...@fractious.net> wrote:
> Hard to believe it's been that long. I remember the first time I saw a
> URL on a billboard. That's when it started to seem "real world"
> instead of confined to us eggheads and business intranet use.

I got online when I was in my first year of college in September 1993
(yes, the September that never ended with us newbies that destroyed
Usenet forever.)

When I first tried the WWW (with Lynx) I remember wondering what the
whole point was... Gopher already did all of this and did it much
better.

A short time later I remember wasting time between classes in the lab,
visiting URLs like mcdonalds.com, to see which were the real thing and
which were occupied by squatters. Anyone remember the original
mcdonald's.com?

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Lang may your lum reek.

[Mitch Bujard]

On 2013-05-02 16:20:15 +0000, Matt Simpson said:

I created my own site around that time with a since departed L.A.
provider called Netvoyage. Soon after, I posted my site on an AOL
member page. In 1998 it was MatchFonts.com and 1999 FontMenu.com.

All have been recorded by the Wayback machine at
http://web.archive.org/web/

Great resource for nostalgia ;^)

Mitch
http://FontMenu.com
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