Funny huh… nobody called ‘It’ the World Wide Web anymore. It’s so prevalent that we just call it the Web or plain Net. Sixteen years and 48 hours ago, in a short post to the alt.hypertext newsgroup, Tim Berners-Lee revealed the first public web pages summarizing his World Wide Web project and thus the Web was born.
….The WWW browsers can access many existing data systems via existing protocols (FTP, NNTP) or via HTTP and a gateway. In this way, the critical mass of data
is quickly exceeded, and the increasing use of the system by readers and information suppliers encourage each other.
Making a web is as simple as writing a few SGML files which point to your existing data. Making it public involves running the FTP or HTTP daemon, and making at least one link into your web from another. In fact, any file available by anonymous FTP can be immediately linked into a web. The very small start-up effort is designed to allow small contributions. At the other end of
the scale, large information providers may provide an HTTP server with full text or keyword indexing.
That was clearly a scientist speaking. Steve Job or Bill Gates would have added a few more hyperboles into the description and would not have thought of giving it away for free.
Can you still remember the days when you discover the Web?
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