25 years of the World Wide Web
25 years of the World Wide Web
While the idea was first worked on by Tim Berners-Lee a couple of years earlier, the internet was made available to the public 25 years ago today, on 6 August 1991.
It's incredible to think there are now 1.1 billion different websites in total.
http://news.sky.com/story/world-wide-we ... y-10524799
It's incredible to think there are now 1.1 billion different websites in total.
http://news.sky.com/story/world-wide-we ... y-10524799
1 billion porn sites, 500k cat video sites and the rest news channels, blogs, Facebook and crappy forums.
I remember in about 92 someone asked for my email address. "A what?" I said
I remember in about 92 someone asked for my email address. "A what?" I said
pew, pew, pew, pew!
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scobienz wrote:While the idea was first worked on by Tim Berners-Lee a couple of years earlier, the internet was made available to the public 25 years ago today, on 6 August 1991.
It's incredible to think there are now 1.1 billion different websites in total.
http://news.sky.com/story/world-wide-we ... y-10524799
My first computer. I bought the 80Mb HDD w/ 6MB of ram and a Sony 12inch color monitor. All total is was about $3000.
The first modem I bought a couple of years later was the 9600 baud... Dial up was so much fun and that connection sound...wew, wew.
இ லொவெ ம்ய் டௌக்ஹ்டெர்ஸ் மொரெ தன் அன்ய்தின்க் இன் தெ வொர்ல்ட்
This warrants minor nitpicking on my part: the Web, not the Net, is now 25 years old. The Internet itself had been in place for some 2 decades by then and during that time slowly evolving various "Internet protocols" (such as email, FTP, usetnet/newsgroups etc) prior to Berners-Lee's creation of the HTTP protocol for a hypertext "Web".scobienz wrote:the internet was made available to the public 25 years ago today
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I believe your right metaleap. The university links came to mind but here is some history from:metaleap wrote:This warrants minor nitpicking on my part: the Web, not the Net, is now 25 years old. The Internet itself had been in place for some 2 decades by then and during that time slowly evolving various "Internet protocols" (such as email, FTP, usetnet/newsgroups etc) prior to Berners-Lee's creation of the HTTP protocol for a hypertext "Web".scobienz wrote:the internet was made available to the public 25 years ago today
http://www.nsf.gov/about/history/nsf005 ... modest.htm
"The original networking was limited to a few systems, including the university system that linked terminals with time-sharing computers, early business systems for applications such as airline reservations, and the Department of Defense's ARPANET. Begun by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in 1969 as an experiment in resource-sharing, ARPANET provided powerful (high-bandwidth) communications links between major computational resources and computer users in academic, industrial, and government research laboratories."
இ லொவெ ம்ய் டௌக்ஹ்டெர்ஸ் மொரெ தன் அன்ய்தின்க் இன் தெ வொர்ல்ட்
Just think of all those juicy dot coms that could have made people millionaires.
I wonder if anything like it will happen again.
I wonder if anything like it will happen again.
My first computer was the 3.5kb Commodore Vic 20 - that one never connected to the net though!salvajeuno wrote:scobienz wrote:While the idea was first worked on by Tim Berners-Lee a couple of years earlier, the internet was made available to the public 25 years ago today, on 6 August 1991.
It's incredible to think there are now 1.1 billion different websites in total.
http://news.sky.com/story/world-wide-we ... y-10524799
My first computer. I bought the 80Mb HDD w/ 6MB of ram and a Sony 12inch color monitor. All total is was about $3000.
The first modem I bought a couple of years later was the 9600 baud... Dial up was so much fun and that connection sound...wew, wew.
I remember getting my first America Online disk in Fort Lauderdale early nineties, think we were on 386s there.
I vividly remember my first time I saw the Internet on the computer.
It was on an excrutiatingly slow dial-up, I was watching those things called 'placeholders' slowly appearing on the screen ahead of graphics and pictures and thinking 'What the hell is this and what is this for?'.
The next time I came back to the Web was two years later when I got my first desktop. That was around the time when Google was known only to the IT professionals. My friend was one, so I began googling
It was on an excrutiatingly slow dial-up, I was watching those things called 'placeholders' slowly appearing on the screen ahead of graphics and pictures and thinking 'What the hell is this and what is this for?'.
The next time I came back to the Web was two years later when I got my first desktop. That was around the time when Google was known only to the IT professionals. My friend was one, so I began googling
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The age of beige, ah those were the days, there was all this crazy info around that is now gone, me and my styling av mac, 28.8 modem and earthlink account, never forgot the first time I read about the greys and the nordics and all that, bonechillin' for a twenty something back then.
One thing we have got the web and TBL to thank for is the massive advance in the availability, variety and quality of online hardcore porn. Where would we be without Pornhub?
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I vaguely recall some woman on BBC making the claim that 90% of the internet bandwidth is used for porn.
Can it really be that high?
Can it really be that high?
ירי ילדים והפצצת אזרחים דורש אומץ, כמו גם הטרדה מינית של עובדי ההוראה.
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Without the need for eye glasses? That stuff will make you go blind.Jock Jock wrote:Where would we be without Pornhub?
"I don't care what the people are thinking, i ain't drunk i'm just drinking"
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Most porn is really bad, they need to make better porn, you spend a lot of downtime looking thru shit to find something useful.
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