The very first website is 35 years old today, and you can still visit it at http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html!
"On August 6, 1991, the first website was introduced to the world. [It] contained information about the World Wide Web Project. It launched at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, CERN, where it was created by British computer scientist @timbl@w3c.social."
Happy birthday, web!
hm, does the html-code have a bug? It looks like there is one "/A" too much
@stefan@stefanbohacek.online @timbl@w3c.social The only awesome website honestly. No javascript needed
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I remember logging in anonymously to #CERN using #telnet on an old #UNIX system to access #lynx to #browse the #Internet in 1992-93 at The Queen's University of Belfast #QUB. Shortly after, QUB installed PCs with direct Internet access. P.S. I still use lynx today.
Edit: to better clarify where and when!
@stefan@stefanbohacek.online @timbl@w3c.social Good to have something very positive to remember #OTD
@stefan@stefanbohacek.online @timbl@w3c.social Great to see that it’s still under construction, too!
@stefan@stefanbohacek.online wish more websites today were like this. Lightweight and loads instantly.
@stefan@stefanbohacek.online @timbl@w3c.social ah, nostalgia: let's make the web great again! (This year, I'm developing an allergy to the ad- and slop-infested web 🥺.)
@stefan@stefanbohacek.online @timbl@w3c.social wow, instantly transported back to when every link was a fun rabbit hole! I could start out on my own first site (aol back in the day!) and end up reading about microbiology in Timbuktoo - or something equally removed from my quotidian existence. I miss that.
@stefan@stefanbohacek.online haha, wow, my first website would be like 29 years old, crazy how much closer it is to the existence of the first one than today!
Yes, IA has it. No, I will never give you the link.
@stefan@stefanbohacek.online @timbl@w3c.social
Wow… how time flies… I made my first hello world attempt in 1996 or so… at that time there were maybe 20000 websites in the Netherlands…
@stefan@stefanbohacek.online I remember when CERN had to rename one of their webservers because it had an underscore in the name
@stefan@stefanbohacek.online @timbl@w3c.social This is how websites should look. I miss the front page that had a bunch of hyperlinks that looked ugly as hell but was super useful. Much better than the super slick, but completely unusable, modern websites.
@stefan@stefanbohacek.online @timbl@w3c.social That’s so cool! The very first website is 2 years older than I am 👏
That's really Nice, that's sort of really long time. Glad to hear about the Program.
@stefan@stefanbohacek.online @timbl@w3c.social And here’s the computer! I was at CERN a couple weeks ago.
@stefan@stefanbohacek.online @timbl@w3c.social We should have stopped at usenet news and Archie TBH.
@stefan@stefanbohacek.online @timbl@w3c.social Oh how we swooned. Limitless creative potential...
Now all we do is watch them swoon. Creatively limited potential, but it helps pass the time.
@stefan@stefanbohacek.online @timbl@w3c.social @pseudonym@mastodon.online I love the way it reads like any hopeful indie code project.
@stefan@stefanbohacek.online The key that started a process that reached critical mass and multiplied ad infinitum.
@stefan@stefanbohacek.online @timbl@w3c.social The 1992 time stamps on the files are still preserved too, wow!
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Congrats folks - thanks for sharing your brains....
@stefan@stefanbohacek.online @timbl@w3c.social 😢 links in the picture not working anymore if I click on them
@stefan@stefanbohacek.online @timbl@w3c.social Back when the web consisted of actual hypertext documents instead of style-over-substance walled castle 'websites', or worse, 'web applications'
@stefan@stefanbohacek.online @timbl@w3c.social
I'm sorry, but the decline of www is unstoppable.
www meant not world wide web, it means, world wide warehouse (shoping mall) nowaday.
It's not again the internet itself, just whole websites that builed to selling bullshit and cheer on capitalism.
regard tunda
@stefan@stefanbohacek.online When I was an undergraduate, one of my classmates came back from CERN having spent six months working on the World Wide Web. He showed us this thing called a web page that had, as I remember, a video of a girl skipping.
We were kind of interested but none of us had any inkling of the monster the web would become.
Now my office is in the same corridor as @timbl@w3c.social 's old office.
@stefan@stefanbohacek.online @timbl@w3c.social I like that in 35 years nobody has fixed the spacing in the "subjects" link
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And, funnily enough, it is also accessible, fast loading and doesn't require Javascript!
@timbl@w3c.social
@stefan@stefanbohacek.online I love the How to Help page. It suggests "Add some data"
35 years later, they should add
"... but not like that"
Adding here as well: https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/117049023247874036
Thanks to everyone keeping the web still going!