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World Wide Web (1991) (cern.ch)
34 points by jhirshon on Aug 23, 2016 | hide | past | favorite | 13 comments



I clicked around a bit and expected most links to be dead but surprisingly all of them worked. Then it crossed my mind: Because it was the first page there was nowhere to link - so no external links, no dead links.


I was struck by the references to 4 different browser.


I got a link that Chrome warned me contained Malware...so there's that.


When people aren't satisfied with the "learning about the universe" justification for doing high energy physics, I remind them that particle physicists invented the world wide web.


Might need to water it down some more and say Facebook and Buzzfeed won't exists if it weren't for particle physicists.


There are laws against inciting violence, even toward physicists.


Look at that HTML, it's so quaint. 80-column aligned. Uppercase labels. No <HTML>. <HEADER> and <NEXTID>. Numeric NAMEs on all the links.

And it uses <DL>/<DT>/<DD>, which seem sadly forgotten on today's web.


Looking forward to celebrating the 25th anniversary of the last update, as well.

< Last-Modified: Thu, 03 Dec 1992 08:37:20 GMT


It's fast. So fast.


And mobile responsive!


Damn. Only 25 years old. Puts things in perspective. Its not often that you live through a "before" and "after" to something as huge as this. (9/11 is probably another)


My first thought was: "I'm as old as the internet"


It's the Web, no Internet though.




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