HB WWW. (25 Years Old)

[N2NH]

Happy Birthday World Wide Web, which turns 25 today. Who knew it was a Pisces?


On the 25th anniversary of the World Wide Web, we’re pleased to share this guest post from Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the web. In this post he reflects on the past, present and future of the web—and encourages the rest of us to fight to keep it free and open. -Ed.

Today is the web’s 25th birthday. On March 12, 1989, I distributed a proposal to improve information flows: “a ‘web’ of notes with links between them.”

Though CERN, as a physics lab, couldn’t justify such a general software project, my boss Mike Sendall allowed me to work on it on the side. In 1990, I wrote the first browser and editor. In 1993, after much urging, CERN declared that WWW technology would be available to all, without paying royalties, forever.

As per today's Google Doodle.


On the 25th anniversary of the web, let’s keep it free and open (http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2014/03/on-25th-anniversary-of-web-lets-keep-it.html)

[K7SGJ]

Happy Birthday WWW. I hope you get laid, just like you've done it to us.

[NQ6U]

Bah. This whole Internet thing ain't goin' nowhere. You watch—six months from now, it will be entirely forgotten and people will have moved on to the next "big thing."

[N2NH]

Bah. This whole Internet thing ain't goin' nowhere. You watch—six months from now, it will be entirely forgotten and people will have moved on to the next "big thing."

I can't wait to be asked for a peer reviewed paper on it. Maybe I'll get another Nobel No-Prize. :lol:

[KK4AMI]

The Internet sure changed things. It is hard to believe how primitive living conditions were in 1972. As a teenage kid, everything I learned I gleaned from Encyclopedia Britannica, an Allied Radio Shack catalog and an old copy of "Playboy!"

[N2NH]

The Internet sure changed things. It is hard to believe how primitive living conditions were in 1972. As a teenage kid, everything I learned I gleaned from Encyclopedia Britannica, an Allied Radio Shack catalog and an old copy of "Playboy!"

You had Playboy? I had Sears and Aldens.

[NQ6U]

Back in the day, we had to walk barefoot six miles through the snow (uphill both ways, of course) to steal Playboy magazines from old man Wilson's garage.

[KK4AMI]

Ahh yes, I forgot about the Sears Catalog. Seriously, as a teenager I had a pretty serious collection of Catalogs and Magazines that i perused regularly. Loved my Flying Magazine, Stoeger Gun Catalog, Allied Radio and good old JC Whitney.

[NY4Q]

I was into Famous Monsters of Filmland, Uncle Creepy, Cousin Eerie, and of course, Vamprilla.

Oh, I liked the Sears Wishbook too.

Speaking of the WWW, I was in a Physics class at Gainesville Junior College and my prof (JB Sharma) came out one morning and said, "Folks (he said folks a lot), I've just come from a meeting and they introduced us to something that will change the world. It's called The World Wide Web"...

I was working for a defense contractor and had access to USENET so I was familiar somewhat with "The Net", but Mr. Sharma shore was right about that one.

Thanks to the universities, a few corporations, and Senator Al Gore for having to insight to get them the government funding it took to build it.

[KB3LAZ]

I am only a year older. :shock:

[WØTKX]

In the old days we used Finger instead of Facebook. ;)

[VE7DCW]

Back in the day, we had to walk barefoot six miles through the snow (uphill both ways, of course) to steal Playboy magazines from old man Wilson's garage.

6 miles huh? ........ when I was a kid in the early 70's we stole the Playboy magazines from the guy across the street who was storing the old issues in cardboard boxes out in the open carport of his house.....wow!! .....brings back memories that does!

Oh and BTW...... HB World Wide Wasteland..... the purveyor of all the quality porn undreamed of in those days :mrgreen:

[w3bny]

Happy birthday WWW...but really, we could have done without goatse, Meatspin, and two girls one cup.

[PA5COR]

It was a dramatic improvement over the dial in BBS system with my 2400 baud Bausch and Lomb modem ;)

[N2NH]

It was a dramatic improvement over the dial in BBS system with my 2400 baud Bausch and Lomb modem ;)

I had a 14.4 Kb/39.9Kb Boca Research Modem on a 10-MHz machine. NYNEX was charging me long-distance charges from Brooklyn to Manhattan and The Bronx too. Beats a monthly $200 phone bill too. Never got a refund either. :irked:

[PA5COR]

Local BBS, w paid a small sum in so he could pay the bill to get all the goodies on his server ;)
Quickly went to 14k4 up tp 56 flex modem.
Then got the iinternutz through phone, followed by cable then ADSL2, to which i stick now because its cheap, cable would give 150Mb/s but that is what we never will use here.
And i don't do cable, i have a motorized dish of 4 feet, going from 45 east to 45 west wih 10K+ TV stations and about as much radio channels.
Linux VU+ reciiever and actuator controled dish.

[NA4BH]

After the local BBS stuff, came CompuServe. Now that was big time.

[KG4CGC]

Happy birthday WWW...but (http://WWW...but) really, we could have done without goatse, Meatspin, and two girls one cup.

You knew it was going to be bad. You looked anyway. You're both at fault here.
(insert goatse bunny emote)

[PA5COR]

All those negative waves.....;)