Web Turns Fifteen (again?) 120
Accommodate Students writes "The BBC is amongst those reporting that the World Wide web has turned fifteen. However, 6 August 1991 is not the only date claimed as the 'birthday of the internet'. So, is it time to fight this out to declare an official birthday? Or can the Web carry on like the Queen with (at least) two birthdays per year? The BBC also have a Flash Timeline of 15 years of the web."
Birthday of the internet? (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Birthday of the internet? (Score:1)
I wish I still had my mod points.
Re:Birthday of the internet? (Score:5, Interesting)
Don't forget that Aarpanet!=Internet & internet/s!=Internet.
I was mildly surprised a while ago to see cisco putting the date in the 90s (legislative birth), others put it at '83 when Aarpanet switched to TCP/IP everywhere & others put it earlier.
The Internet kinda evolved from a lower lifeform rather then being 'born'. I don't think its the sort of thing you can put an exact date on.
Re:Birthday of the internet? (Score:5, Funny)
I guess when porn was introduced. Before that no one was using it. Am I right or am I right?
Re:Birthday of the internet? (Score:2, Funny)
1983.1.1 (Score:2)
Re:Birthday of the internet? (Score:3, Funny)
The system goes on-line August 4th, 1997.
Human decisions are removed and replace with ICANN.
It begins to learn at a geometric rate.
It becomes aware of pr0n at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th.
In a panic, they try to pull the plug.
Call Al Gore.... (Score:1)
Re:Birthday of the internet? (Score:2)
I thought the Internet was Intelligently Designed.
Re:Birthday of the internet? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Birthday of the internet? (Score:1)
Now we just have to wait for the birthday of the dupe so they can dupe the dupe's birthday.
"Dupe, dupe, dupe, dupe of earl..."
Re:Birthday of the internet? (Score:1)
Perhaps England uses metric time? (Score:1, Funny)
Obligatory Simpson's Quote (Score:2)
Picture of the web? (Score:4, Funny)
Now thats impressive
Pedantry (Score:2)
Re:Pedantry (Score:2)
Thanks very much for that interesting & informative reply!
I had no idea what that pic was - I was going to simply ask, but knowing slashdot, I'd never get an answer - so I went for humour instead, knowing some pedant would correct me!
Re:Picture of the web? (Score:2)
I did my part. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I did my part. (Score:1)
You should do that on Father's Day, not the web's birthday, you insensitive clod!
Re:you republican troll (Score:5, Informative)
No-no-no-no-no. Both of you are wrong.
Al Gore created (not invented) the Internet, not the Web. This is the birthday of the Web, which Tim Berners-Lee [w3.org] created.
(The actual Al Gore quote is something along the lines of "I took the initiative to create the Internet," nothing about inventing. Specifically.)
On a slightly serious note, this is the birthday of the Web: HTML delivered over HTTP, I'd assume. Not the Internet, which can be considered to have a birthday of anywhere between 1982 and 1989 depending on your definition.
But then again, so can the web. Looking over the W3C's timeline [w3.org] you can get several different "birthdays" for the WWW. Another good one might be March 1989, when Tim Berners-Lee wrote his first HTML/HTTP proposal [w3.org].
The August 6th, 1991 date is the first date that an actual browser was made available to the public [w3.org] and could be thought of as the "birth date" as well.
Re:you republican troll (Score:3, Informative)
Anyhow, nothing he ever said could ever make up for the idiotic things the elder Bush's VP said http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Dan_Quayle/ [quotationspage.com] - even in context he sounded like an idiot, although a few of them I think he meant figuratively (like being a part of Europe).
And no, I'm not a Democrat tr
Births need Conception (it's a pun) (Score:1)
Wouldn't that be more like the web's conception date and August 6, 1991 be the delivery date? That's some gestation period. Depending on your location, you either celebrate "birthdays" on the day of birth or the day of conception. As such, there is no way to obtain consensus here.
Re:you republican troll (Score:1)
To me the addition of pictures to this type of system only made it easier to find the porn! Searching FTP for porn was just too hard!!!
Now I'm just showing my age!
Re:you republican troll (Score:3, Informative)
Actually, gopher is younger than HTTP, and directly competed with it. Gopher advocates (and still do) suggest that automatic linking, reasonable automatic spidering, and a dead-simple protocol, make Gopher still better than HTTP.
That's because porn was almost never on FTP. Pre-WWW porn was found on USENET.
Re:you republican troll (Score:1)
Re:you republican troll (Score:2)
The "Web" as everyone call it is NOT the Internet. The Web never was and is still not the Internet. The birthday everyone is talking about it when the Marketing people found that money could be made here and they came along a screwed up a good thing.
There is a lot more to it than a Big Blue "E".
Difference between "the Web" and "the Internet" (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Difference between "the Web" and "the Internet" (Score:2)
Proof the Web is a lady.. (Score:4, Funny)
"Web Turns Fifteen" (Score:2, Funny)
Imperial years (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Imperial years (Score:2, Funny)
I think you have it figured out. Someone give the man a gallon of free bandwidth!
Re:Imperial years (Score:1)
Re:Imperial years (Score:1)
so english people feel like there getting ripped off in the rest of europe when they order a "pint" and get 500ml but us yanks order a pint and get MORE than we expected when we are places serving 500ml "pints"
Re:Imperial years (Score:2, Insightful)
A place to fight (Score:5, Funny)
Re:A place to fight (Score:1)
--Lionel Hutz
Re:A place to fight (Score:2)
Crikey. (Score:2, Interesting)
Wiki (Score:5, Informative)
http://www.thesecondchancemovie.com/_site/mediapl
November 12, 1990 (Score:1)
So, the first time the words `World Wide Web' were used was November 12, 1990. Then it took a year for impleme
The first site included a directory of other sites (Score:2)
Poorly read (Score:5, Informative)
Without using the word "tubes".
Re:Poorly read (Score:2)
Wait until it's 18 (Score:5, Funny)
Yes but the best year is the 21st. (Score:2)
Going to bet it's going to lose a few packets the next day, if you know what I mean.
Re:Yes but the best year is the 21st. (Score:1)
Re:Yes but the best year is the 21st. (Score:2)
Re:Yes but the best year is the 21st. (Score:2)
Feliz Cumpleanos! (Score:1)
Just for God's sake, keep poker chips away!
Dupe ! (Score:1, Offtopic)
I never knew BernersLee's first name (Score:3, Funny)
It always boggles my mind when content management software and the output to the web gets so confused. Don't people test these things? I almost envision a new entry to the Fifteen Years list on BBC.
August, 2006
Content Management Craze Hits the Web
IT Managers around the world decide they have to install content management systems in order to be more "modern". The Internet collapses briefly until valiant web designers revert to simple text editors to recreate the web.
You call THAT an Internet timeline??? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:You call THAT an Internet timeline??? (Score:2, Informative)
Um... well, I guess we'll have to take their word for it! :)
I'm sure most /.ers are well aware of the page, but Google also lists other "famous firsts." [google.com]
Re:You call THAT an Internet timeline??? (Score:2)
http://groups.google.com/group/news.groups/msg/89b 4f053c27fe794 [google.com]
Re:You call THAT an Internet timeline??? (Score:2)
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forensics (Score:1)
Re:forensics (Score:2)
Re:forensics (Score:1)
Fifteen? (Score:5, Funny)
Check Wikipedia (Score:5, Funny)
According to Wikipedia - the gold standard for such important questions - the internet was conceived on October 12, 1492. (Also worth noting, Carl Friedrich Gauss was the first person to hold the title of "webmaster".)
Re:Check Wikipedia (Score:1)
archive (Score:1)
Huh? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Huh? (Score:1)
Different aspects of WWW (Score:1)
"The first TCP/IP wide area network was operational by 1 January 1983, when the United States' National Science Foundation (NSF) constructed a university network backbone that would later become the NSFNet. (This date is held by some to be technically that of the birth of the Internet.) It was then followed by the opening of the network to commercial interests in 1985. Important separate networks that offered gateways into, then later merged into the NSFNet include Usenet, Bitnet and the va
important milestones (Score:2)
Another milestone was national funding of the internet backbone- dedication optical lines running cross-country. The telcoms and business customers wer
Happy 15th! (Score:2)
Who'd have thought ... (Score:1)
... fifteen years ago that Tim Berners-Lee was developing the fastest, quickest, biggest way for one computer to send p0rn directly to another.
... fifteen years ago that http would become the bane of the MPAA and RIAA since it's secondary use is to ship illegally "obtained" music and video files.
... fifteen years ago that all my e-mail would simply be yet another URL which is attempting to screw me with sales of dodgy p0rn, dogdy medication, dodgy lottery tickets and dodgy stock scams.
... fifteen yea
And to celebrate 15 years of WWW (Score:1)
Re:And to celebrate 15 years of WWW (Score:1)
Correct History by Daniel Barbalace (Score:1, Informative)
This claim is very wrong. The Internet (notice the capitalization) was born on October 29, 1969 at 10:30 p.m. See http://www.lk.cs.ucla.edu/LK/Inet/1stmesg.html [ucla.edu]
As for the World Wide Web, here's a brief timeline.
1989 March
"Information Management: A Proposal" written by the great Tim Berners-Lee and circulated for comments at CERN.
http://www.w3.org/History/1989/proposal.html [w3.org]
1990 September
Tim Berners-Lee begins work on
Earlier invention of networked hypertext (Score:2)
I remember accessing GNU Info files via Sun OS 4.1 NFS in 1990. I'm sure there are other even earlier examples. Didn't need a bloated brower either just Emacs or xinfo. Berners Lee just did it later in dumbed down that gained traction with simple minded PC users.
Birthday of what? (Score:1)
I go with the title and in that case they are right. So let us all write an email to Tim Berners-Lee and thank him for his cool idea. So he will regret it that he invented it in the first place
Who to ask? (Score:1)
Birthday of the Web (Score:1)
Web Turns 15...Test (Score:1)
Easy answer... (Score:2)
Hmm, let me think... December 25th sounds good.
Re:You know that Slashdot has gone down the tubes (Score:2)
Yes, but they don't use the Internet.
-dZ.
Re:1991 Invalid (Score:1)