“The origins of the internet in Europe”
We’ve already mentioned Paul Otlet and The Mundaneum museum here. Google Cultural Institute has just published a site dedicated to them, showing how they designed the very first search engine in 1935...
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I work in the communications group at CERN where I am in charge of CERN’s public-facing websites. We’ve set up a project to restore and preserve the first URL, which is sadly no longer active:...
View ArticleWhere is the missing NeXT optical drive?
I was talking with Robert Cailliau this morning about our project to restore the first website. He mentioned an interesting anecdote that could possibly lead us to an earlier version of the first...
View ArticleTwentieth anniversary of a free, open web
Today is the twentieth anniversary of the publication of a document by CERN that made the web available to all on a royalty-free basis. To mark this occasion we’re kicking off a project to restore the...
View ArticleThe History of the Internet in a Nutshell
Hi all, This was brought to my attention: The History of the Internet in a Nutshell. Ian
View ArticleCERN Launches Line Mode Browser Emulator
Very relevant to this group: CERN Launches Line Mode Browser Emulator http://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/10/01/2331246/cern-launches-line-mode-browser-emulator
View ArticleThe Early History of HTML
I’ve just come across an article that I don’t recall reading before, it has some nuggets about the origins of HTML: The Early History of HTML. I found it via What does “HREF” stand for?.
View ArticleAccessing the line-mode browser with 1960s tech
Yesterday via the “Restoring the first website” CERN Website, I discovered Accessing the line mode browser with 1960s tech, an interview of computer hobbyist Suhayl Khan, who shows us in a 15-minute...
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[fake] “Computer ‘Web’ To Change Billions of Live (yeah, right)”
UPDATE: this is a fake, as pointed out by David Kendal. The Sun newspaper, back in 1992: From: How The Sun reported the invention of the #Internet, back in 1992… Blimey! pic.twitter.com/YhXpA7n5Cg —...
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Links, Fractals and Information Plumbing
Curious to find a common thread between Xanadu and the Semantic Web, I discovered a treasure trove of videos with Tim Berners Lee, Doug Engelbart, Ted Nelson and others talking about hypertext and all...
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