The Web turns 20, FidoNet suffers abandonment issues
By Joseph L. Flatley 
posted March 13th 2009 5:40PM
posted March 13th 2009 5:40PM
Today marks the twentieth anniversary of Sir Tim Berners-Lee's submission to CERN titled "Information Management: A proposal." Over roughly the next year and a half he had built HTTP, HTML, WorldWideWeb (the first web browser), CERN httpd (the first server software), and the first web server (http://info.cern.ch), paving the way for an unprecedented era of human communication and interconnectivity. We're not entirely sure how 4chan, Bert Is Evil, or Tila Tequila fit into all of this, but we'd sure miss them if they weren't here (well, not Tila Tequila -- definitely not Tila Tequila). The visionary chats about cyberspace past, present, and future after the break.
[Via Daily Wireless]
[Via Daily Wireless]
Ah... I still remember my old node number. Net 109 FTW!
I'm sure it was awesome for its time, but this is a great opportunity to kick HTML to the curb forever. There are vastly superior ways to build a page or application using markup these days (my personal favorite: xaml) and there is no reason why we should have to suffer through sub-par updates to the HTML spec forever.
Does nobody remember poor Gopher?
Gopher was a big deal at the University of Minnesota where I went to school in the early 90's. Before there was a "browser" that supported graphics, you used to have to tab through the hyperlinks. There wasn't much of interest to non-nerds. If you wanted pr0n, you had to dial up a bbs with your screamin' fast 2400 baud modem.
I can remember being on the web back when it was around 200 sites (give or take a few) and mostly universities. I think it was around 1993 or so, and the only thing in the computer lab at school which could run Mosaic was the console of the Sun 4 that acted as the server for the lab. The Windows versions of Mosaic wouldn't arrive until a few months away, which was nice right up until we saw the first version of Netscape, which completely blew Mosaic away in even in its original (0.9) version.
i invented the internet... wrote it in COBOL. That was the future of programing.... wait, now's yesterday's future !!!
Tim Berners-lee lives in my town, i'll tell his Kid to relay the message that you all wish him well.
Don't be cruel, man. Haven't you considered that the guys at engadget might be suffering some kind of psychological impairment like, don't know, bipolarity or something?
Not long ago they refused to report the the launch of Google's Chrome because "We only discuss gadgets here. That's what we do. No more, no less. Gadgets. Like in en-gadget, get it?".
Can it be related to subprime crisis aftermath?
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