Posted on 12/20/2015 9:22:56 PM PST by pluvmantelo
If the web were a person, it wouldn't have trouble renting a car from now on: the world's first website, Tim Berners-Lee's World Wide Web, went online 25 years ago today. The inaugural page wasn't truly public when it went live at CERN on December 20th, 1990 (that wouldn't happen until August 1991), and it wasn't much more than an explanation of how the hypertext-based project worked.
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FreeRepublic.com was launched on September 23, 1996. Led the impeachment of BJ Clinton a couple years later. Would love to impeach FUBO.
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And it wasn’t a porn site???
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Just a post to see my join date... Did us 2000 joiners finally get to be included in the FR old timers club?
Less than a year until the 20th anniversary. Great work, great site. Can’t wait for the celebration!
Soon. Hold your horses, newbie.
I’m a youngster here. I started lurking on 9/11 but didn’t get the courage to join for a long time. You guys were intimidating.
Mr. Robinson. I feel honored to give your great comment a reply.
Freerepublic helped me deal with stress caused by leftists in Berkeley in 1997.
Tim Berners Lee’s excellent invention helped us deal with stress from newspapers, televisions and radios in 1991.
Craig Newmark’s excellent list helped us ignore newspaper classifieds in 1995.
I remember when Kinko’s in Berkeley in 1995 had a new “web” thing that allowed people to sit at the computer, get help with something called “Netscape” and then see pictures from Mars slowly unfold. Amazing.
I remember getting on the internet in 1992 and going to the local Barnes and Noble where you could buy a book with URLs of the web sites in existence. It was about an inch thick.
When I tried using it, most of the websites had been shut down already.
I first went online in late 1992. There wasn’t much out there then. I worked for GTE at the time, and they let employees dial into the company servers from outside. I just needed a password from IT. Remember 15.5 modems? Those were a step up from my first one!
The first useful website I found was the Stash Tea online catalog, and Amazon books shortly afterwards.
Been right here for 17 years of it. I’m thinking of getting a new nick for my 20th. Something like Hillary’s_Parole_Officer. That ought to last me another 20.
I wasn’t even 11 years old yet.
If you can’t remember having to choose between this WWW thingy and Gopher sites, you haven’t been on the internet long enough. CERN and Webcrawler.
I had to google what gopher was...
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2009/11/the-web-may-have-won-but-gopher-tunnels-on/
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