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On this date in 1991 Tim Berners Lee gave us the first description of the World Wide Web (www.w3.org)
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[–] 10 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (2 children)

Hello world, this is the first website

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    • [–] 6 points 3 years ago

    The fediverse is the perfect example of how social media should be implemented following Sir Tim Berners-Lee's vision when creating the WWW. That's why this feels like pre-2010 internet!

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    [–] 4 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    http://info.cern.ch - home of the first website

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago

    From the overview:

    "The project is based on the philosophy that much academic information should be freely available to anyone. It aims to allow information sharing within internationally dispersed teams, and the dissemination of information by support groups.".

    Now it seems most of it is taken up by TikTok videos of someone's pet poodle

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    • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    Thanks for this! I had to look some things up.

    Daemon (computing)

    Maxwell's demon

    Which brought meaning to eps1.3_da3m0ns.mp4

    TIL about eudaemonia when reading about the history of the internet.

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    [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    I remember the first time I heard about the web. My exact response was: "That sounds like a waste of bandwidth."

    Ha ha. Oops.

    (In the early 90s I was completely obsessed with usenet. The graphical nature of web pages seemed like a terrible idea to me.)

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