Xah Lee's Unixism
Alan J. Flavell
flavell at ph.gla.ac.uk
Tue Sep 7 09:34:32 EDT 2004
On Tue, 7 Sep 2004, Kåre Olai Lindbach wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Sep 2004 23:55:28 +0100, "Alan J. Flavell"
> <flavell at ph.gla.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> >On Tue, 7 Sep 2004, John Thingstad wrote:
> >
> >> It was the realization of www (CERN) that spawned the movement toward the
> >> Internet.
> >
> >Eh?
>
> http://www.hitmill.com/internet/web_history.asp
> Or rather the history of Tim Berners-Lee.
Try http://www.w3.org/History.html
I'm sorry - I didn't really mean to trap anyone into trying to
teach Great-Uncle Alan how to suck eggs.
It's just that those of us who had /some/ contact with the original
developments (and mine was fairly tenuous, I confess) would have told
the story of the development of the /Internet/ quite differently. But
I leave that to other "old farts" who are already posting their
versions ;-)
I've no disagreement that the availability of a graphical web browser
was -one- of the driving forces towards wider access to and
commercialisation of the Internet. But that didn't emerge on any kind
of scale until 1994-ish and later.
"Eternal September" dates from 1993. To toss just another data point
into the ring.
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