CERN, a research center in Switzerland, created the first website. The Web was publicly announced with a post to the Usenet newsgroup alt.hypertext on August 6, 1991. There is a snapshot of the site from November 1992 at The World Wide Web project.
The NeXTCube Tim Berners-Lee built/hosted it on used to be on display in the lobby there, complete with handwritten “This machine is a server DO NOT POWER DOWN!!” sticker, which always made me laugh.
The NeXTCube Tim Berners-Lee built/hosted it on used to be on display in the lobby there, complete with handwritten “This machine is a server DO NOT POWER DOWN!!” sticker, which always made me laugh.
I "found" the internet in 1994 when my dad upgraded the 8086 IBM he originally got in the early 80s (for which my brother and I had bought a CGA ... well, I'd say gpu and yeah it was but, "video...
I "found" the internet in 1994 when my dad upgraded the 8086 IBM he originally got in the early 80s (for which my brother and I had bought a CGA ... well, I'd say gpu and yeah it was but, "video card" and monitor), and suddenly, BBSes and AOL/Compuserve was the new thing. All that to say, I remember trying to get into figuring how to do things out, and gopher was a huge thing that I'd totally forgotten about until this.
Also yeah, most of my first experiences didn't have pictures until I convinced my dad to let me put in his checkbook info into AOL every other month for the free subscriptions.
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Oh neat trivia fact I didnt know CERN made the first website!!
The NeXTCube Tim Berners-Lee built/hosted it on used to be on display in the lobby there, complete with handwritten “This machine is a server DO NOT POWER DOWN!!” sticker, which always made me laugh.
We had a laptop like that at my first job out of college haha
It was running automated tests, though, not a server. By then we had cloud shit.
Not too long ago really!
I still remember thinking “big deal, it’s just gopher with images”.
I guess that was a bit of under estimation.
I "found" the internet in 1994 when my dad upgraded the 8086 IBM he originally got in the early 80s (for which my brother and I had bought a CGA ... well, I'd say gpu and yeah it was but, "video card" and monitor), and suddenly, BBSes and AOL/Compuserve was the new thing. All that to say, I remember trying to get into figuring how to do things out, and gopher was a huge thing that I'd totally forgotten about until this.
Also yeah, most of my first experiences didn't have pictures until I convinced my dad to let me put in his checkbook info into AOL every other month for the free subscriptions.