the web is 20

[vizionut]

http://info.cern.ch/www20/
Its hard to believe the world wide web is twenty years old this month.

 

[jwenthold99]

Wait a minute!

That link does Not mention Al Gore! There is something weird going on here.....

 

[10010011]

WOW I remember it like it was yesterday. I had a dialup Unix shell account at the local university. Besides the standard Telnet, Gopher, and Archie you could try Lynx and the world wide web, an experimental way of accessing information through hypertext. Who'd have guessed it would catch on?

I installed Lynx on my Linux box (no X) a few weeks ago to download some stuff. That brought back memories...

 

[markw]

I think it's actually older than that.

I remember working at Radio Shack between 1980 - 1983 and using a coco to dial into compuserve.

 

[Rickster71]

I remember working at Radio Shack between 1980 - 1983 and using a coco to dial into compuserve.

I agree, in my AT&T days, I remember being on the net in 1985, using a Silent 700, with thermal paper print out.

 

[vizionut]

bump!!!! sorry guys

 

[alexwakelin]

My first web experience was with AOL (shudder) back in '93.

 

[Adam]

My first web experience was with AOL (shudder) back in '93.

You're got mail!

I dropped AOL back around 1996 or 1997 because I became (IMO) addicted to the chat rooms. I was spending too much time on them. A couple hours a day at least.

Good thing that I've stayed away from that problem.

 

[Sheep]

Tubes! It's all Tubes!

SheepStar

 

[Adam]

Tubes! It's all Tubes!

You been hittin' the single malt already?

 

[vizionut]

You been hittin' the single malt already?

the cheap stuff is always the best

 

[Midcow2]

The real story of the Internet

I agree, in my AT&T days, I remember being on the net in 1985, using a Silent 700, with thermal paper print out.

You are remembering Timesharing services which was not the Internet. 110 baud ( 1 start bit , data bits, onstop bit) at 10 cps (characters pers second). This was available in the late 60's Later, early 70's came the Texas Instrument's Silent 700s with a 300 baud ( one start bit, 8 data bits and one stop bit) 30 cps acoustic coupler.

The real start of the Internet was ARPA net which was designed to share university research and had absolutely no security. Also, there were no browsers and golpher or news servers were the best you had.

The Wikipedia explanation of ARPANET gives you an idea. i t was implemented in 1962 which is over 47 years ago! ---- not 20
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET

I should know, I supported timesharing, data communciations and telcommunciations in those early years

Sometime I will tell you aobut the protocol convetpr code I wrote and supported. and about mainframe 3705 Front End Processors and the first 3277 CRTs.

Later,

MidCow2


P.S. - You have to forgive Al Gore, he gets the World Wide Web and Global Warming confused with his arrogance and stupidity.