Don't you love symmetry?

tng | 2006-11-13 21:27

I suppose it's more than ironic that Neural Gourmet would have serious issues today of all days. The World Wide Web is officially sixteen years old today. You can view some of the very first web pages referring to "The Project" as it was called. I particularly enjoyed the section on how you can help the web. There is also a slide show on the history of the internet and the web from the 10th anniversary of the web in Asia site.

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procrastinate later | 2006-11-14 16:05 | I missed my NG fix

Interesting stuff. It's hard to imagine now that the web evolved from those baby steps.

greyleonard | 2006-11-17 09:02 | Wow, absolutely fascinating!

I love this:

"Tell your friends: Install/get installed the client software on your site. Quote things by their W3 address to allow w3 users to pick them straight up." !

You can pick that quote straight up here: http://www.w3.org/History/19921103-hypertext/hypertext/WWW/Helping.html

tng | 2006-11-17 09:20 | How about that etiquette page too?

I like the way these pages were written. They clearly had no idea how huge the project would become.

Etiquette wrote:

If you have a serious server then it may last longer than the machine on which it runs. Ask your internet domain name manager to make an alias for it so that you can refer to it, instead of as "mysun12.dom.edu" as "info.dom.edu" for example, or "www.dom.edu". This will mean that when you change machines, you move the alias, and people's links to your data will still work.

Don't you love symmetry?

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