Thomas<p>Internet itself is older RT <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://eupolicy.social/@stefan" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>stefan</span></a></span>: "On August 6, 1991 [34 years ago], the first website was introduced to the world. [It] contained information about the World Wide Web Project. It launched at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, CERN, where it was created by British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee."</p><p><a href="http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://</span><span class="ellipsis">info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/The</span><span class="invisible">Project.html</span></a></p><p>Happy birthday, web!</p><p>Via <a href="https://www.npr.org/2021/08/06/1025554426/a-look-back-at-the-very-first-website-ever-launched-30-years-later" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">npr.org/2021/08/06/1025554426/</span><span class="invisible">a-look-back-at-the-very-first-website-ever-launched-30-years-later</span></a></p><p><a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/TheWeb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TheWeb</span></a> <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/internet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>internet</span></a> <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/WorldWideWeb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WorldWideWeb</span></a> <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/FirstWebsite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FirstWebsite</span></a> <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a> <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OTD</span></a></p>
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Remember those "best experienced with [browser name]" badges?
"MTV's revamped World Wide Web site for MTV contains a heavy amount of original music content and a unique Web browser design. [...] Some of the site's best content, including a grossly appealing game with Beavis & Butt-head, is designed exclusively for Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser."
CyberculturalBest Experienced With: MTV.com and the 90s Browser War
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"The level of creativity and versatility on display on your average Geocities site is hard to understate. Most were a cross between amateur experiments and love letters to this or that piece of pop culture. They were plastered with recipes, vacation photos, esoteric images, and tidbits of slash fiction."
The History of the Web · Exploring the web in 1995 - The History of the WebBy the end of 1995, the web moved outward and into the hands of everyone.
Very cool, you can find me in the Internet Phone Book under number 708!
Internet Phone BookInternet Phone BookAn annual publication for exploring the vast poetic web, featuring essays, musings and a directory with the personal websites of hundreds of designers, developers, writers, curators, and educators. Published since 2025.
"In Mandarin Chinese, World Wide Web is commonly translated via a phono-semantic matching to wàn wéi wǎng (万维网), which satisfies www and literally means "10,000-dimensional net", a translation that reflects the design concept and proliferation of the World Wide Web."
en.wikipedia.orgWorld Wide Web - Wikipedia
"We’re joined this evening on the Internet. What is an Internet? They’re getting a simul-ah…broadcast of the show tonight. Hello Internet people!"
CyberculturalThe Age of Buffering: Video Streaming and Webcasts in 1997
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"In July 1997, N2K and Liquid Audio announced a way to sell digital singles online for 99 cents. For historical context, this was a couple of years before Napster came onto the scene and over five years before Apple launched the iTunes Store."
CyberculturalDuran Duran and the Dawn of Digital Music Sales in 1997
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In his latest Cybercultural entry, @ricmac looks at the state of the internet in 1996: portals, e-commerce, web design trends, online music, and the emergence of web apps.
CyberculturalWhat the Internet Was Like in 1996
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"On 30 April 1993 CERN issued a public statement stating that the three components of Web software (the basic line-mode client, the basic server and the library of common code) were put in the Public Domain [...]"
https://home.cern/science/computing/birth-web/licensing-web
https://cds.cern.ch/record/1164399/
Full text: https://genius.com/Cern-statement-concerning-cern-w-3-software-release-into-public-domain-annotated
"There were no books on web design, no best practices."
https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/the-innovative-designs-of-1995/
The History of the Web · The innovative designs of 1995 - The History of the WebIn 1995, a new industry was born, and design became a true practice.
"It’s strange to think that streaming a song in stereo was so revolutionary back then, but that was the state of the art in online media circa 1996."
CyberculturalState of Online Music in 1996: RealAudio and Rocktroplis
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A great follow-up from @Jayhoffmann!
"1995 was the web’s single most important inflection point."
https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/1995-was-the-most-important-year-for-the-web/
The History of the Web · 1995 Was the Most Important Year for the Web - The History of the WebThe world changed a lot in 1995. And for the web, it was a transformational year.