Posted on 03/12/2019 3:41:18 PM PDT by TBP
"Suppose all the information stored on computers everywhere were linked. Suppose I could program my computer to create a space in which everything could be linked to everything." – Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web
In 1989 the world’s largest physics laboratory, CERN, was a hive of ideas and information stored on multiple incompatible computers. Tim Berners-Lee envisioned a unifying structure for linking information across different computers, and wrote a proposal in March 1989 called “Information Management: A Proposal”. By 1991 this vision of universal connectivity had become the World Wide Web.
My first thought as well. I wonder how many actually remember that.
Algore: A legend in his own mind...
And I was first on the WWW sometime in late 1996 at the Bayonne Public Library.
I discovered the WWW in 1991 with considerable help from those who invented it. I was in uniform and working simulation training with the brainiacs that made much of this happened. When you got to the end of your journey back then, it was disappointing, especially if you weren’t a geek which I was not. But, it was fun occasionally and I could see that the future was going to be exciting.
We didn’t have internet connectivity in my rural area until 1997.
Yep - Packard Bell 250mb hard drive, AOL which had a “World Wide Web” connect box at the upper right hand of the screen. The sense of freedom when I got off AOL!
I was 1994. That was back when I was using Gopher and Mosiac.
Although I was a brilliant computer programmer, my computer clueless brother had the very first website on the web to stream video. I was so embarrassed.
Tim Berners-Lee created the World Wide Web on Steve Jobs’ Next computer, which with its GUI made it possible. Other platforms at the time were sluggish.
I first used in in 94 at the library too.
I remember using Webcrawler, NASA’s FTP photo archive, and discovered shareware and freeware on the first day. Felt like I won the lottery.
We connected an office to the Internet in 1995
Suddenly everyone and I mean everyone was using Netscape Navigator and hotbot to surf for porn
When someone yelled “Holy sh... look at this!”
Everyone would run over to their desk.
A different world back then
And around that time of porn viewing on desktop PCs, walled cubicles appeared. I remember working in open offices with rows of desks where everyone could see each other. Then partitions started going up, giving privacy to workers to view whatever they wanted. I worked in a room with a dozen guys, no women, and it was as you described. Guys would cluster around one desk (except for a prude or two). Gals in the office returned sanity there.
Early 91. Prodigy. Green screen
I had lists of IP addresses. Few were interesting, but it was a discovery. What was surprising was how many weren’t password protected. If you had the IP, you were in.
Remember usenet?
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