Happy 25th Anniversary to the World Wide Web

[malaise]

Long live the internet.

[Ichingcarpenter]

1. Not to be confused with the Internet.

The workstation that first ran it was a NeXT computer

The NeXT Computer (also called the NeXT Computer System) was a workstation computer developed, manufactured, and sold by NeXT Inc., a company founded by Steve Jobs and several other veterans of the Macintosh and Lisa teams, from 1988 until 1990


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXT_Computer

History:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web

[malaise]

5. Thanks Ichingcarpenter

[progressoid]

10. It's a series of tubes!

[47of74]

2. The internets

It has replaced beer as the cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems.

[Blue_Tires]

18. To think there was a time not long ago

where men actually had to buy a *magazine* if they wanted to see some nekkid ladies

[47of74]

19. Or dudes.

[bvf]

3. Hooray!

I'm very old and remember the internet before the World Wide Web. Want to see pictures? Subscribe to a binaries group.

Not like these kids today, no sireebob.

[kentauros]

4. I remember watching a friend of mine back in 1980 play a Star Trek game, I think,

on a teletype and a 150 baud modem!

[BumRushDaShow]

14. I played the text-based BASIC Trek game back in the early '70s

when we found out it was on the school district's mainframe. GET -$GAMES (geez - I think that's what we typed when we connected and logged in to get the list of available games on that system). Teletype printout (only) after each move as there was no monitor. Killed many trees and Klingons.

[kentauros]

20. That was probably it.

I thought for sure he was connected to someone else, though, because I do remember him mentioning that as well. I just don't know what state the other person was in.

I thought it pretty archaic even then, considering I knew engineers at NASA-JSC with those "portable" desktop computers, too

[bvf]

15. Got me there.

By the time I started paying attention, modems were already at 300 baud.

We're all doing basically the same thing nowadays, just a lot faster!

[kentauros]

21. Yes, I remember my father getting a 1200 baud modem for our old C-64

but I didn't know enough about BBSs to use it. And so, I didn't get online through a BBS until 1996 and my old IBM PC at the time

[Scuba]

6. Birthday pic ...

The line in this map shows all of the world's Internet connections in 1969.

[malaise]

7. LOL

[pipoman]

8. Thanks

[malaise]

9. Don't mess with

Al

[meegbear]

12. ...

[meegbear]

13. The place where I can find all the world's knowledge and porn ....

God Bless the WWW

[malaise]

16. LOL

I see someone is 'board'.

[malaise]

17. Here's a nice link

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-26527107
<snip>
Quarter of a century after his proposal for the world wide web was put forward could Sir Tim Berners-Lee have had any idea how his creation would turn out?

"No idea at all.

"It was really important that it could have anything on it, but the idea that it would end up with almost everything on it - that seemed like a crazy idea at the time.

Robert Cailliau was an engineer at CERN at the same time as Sir Tim Berners-Lee. He was involved with its development from almost the start and was instrumental in allowing the the World Wide Web to be used for free.

"As to making lots of money? If I'd made it something which was a proprietary system then it would not have taken off. The only reason it took off is because people were prepared to invest in it because it's open and free.

"The word 'World' was global, which was important. And 'Web'? Mathematically it's a web and gives the "impression that you can connect anything to anything.

"'WWW' didn't trip off the tongue for people in other countries but it was an acronym no-one else had used."