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I got nostalgic, so I ended up browsing pictures from #DWebCamp2023, and I found these wild shots of me and @timbl. Almost two years have passed, and I still cannot completely believe that I spent time chatting with the creator of the #WorldWideWeb and that he autographed my thesis!

Unbelievable things happen at #DWebCamp.

(Thanks to @mai for the stolen shot 🌻)

Fun fact: @mark kindly came and picked me up at the airport and he drove me and TBL to DWeb Camp. The first thing they asked me about while getting to the car was this patch I had, simulating the hammer and sickle communist symbol, but actually representing a sickle popping open an Aperol Spritz. So there was me, super jet-lagged and hungover (because I had my last exam of my bachelor the day before) trying to explain what that was to the creator of #HTML and the director of the #WaybackMachine. It was super embarrassing but it is a great story to tell.

@dweb #TBL #WWW #Internet #InternetHistory #decentralization #HTTP #Web

On March 12, 1989, Tim Berners-Lee submitted a proposal for an information management system to his boss at CERN. “Vague but exciting” was his feedback. The project later became the World Wide Web.

Thank you, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, for changing the world!

#TimBL#WWW#LPI

friendly request for fellow software preservationists:

i've been looking for a particular Win95-based program that was in use roughly from 1997-2000 called Peck's Power Post. it was a usenet binary posting program that was incredibly popular on binary groups in the late 90s, before it was replaced by Power Post 2000.

I know that the filename was PPP06B.ZIP and/or PPP06BF.ZIP

unfortunately, WBM didn't keep a proper archive of the file. the snapshot of www.visi.com/~loganx/PPP06b.zi appears to be corrupted, only downloading a 1MB file.

the file is approximately 4MB total.

discmaster and WBM have been searched exhaustively for this file with no luck. if you happen to know of another source for this very obscure program, i'd be indebted. 🙏

The world wide web looked radically different during its golden age, with companies like Spotify, Netflix, Amazon and Facebook drawing in massive numbers of users with “awesome features and affordable pricing,” Zak Storey writes for @TechRadar. Looking ahead, however, the future doesn't seem to be en route to becoming the result of changes for the better. Read more: flip.it/EqL1QO
#Tech #WorldWideWeb #Technology #AI #Internet #Computers

TechRadar · The death of the internet: why the future is terrifying, and how we fix itWe’re living in a slowly degrading echo-chamber of AI, ads, and profits

The #WorldWideWeb got started simply, as a bunch of altruistic academics wanting to spread information as widely and as freely as possible.

From that beginning, it steadily grew in popularity. Eventually, Money figured they could make a buck off of it. Some of our biggest corporations now wouldn't have been possible without the Web.

Now, those corporations are the source of many of the Web's biggest problems, and the best parts of it (like Wikipedia) are those that never lost sight of its foundation: distributing information wide and free.

The Web hasn't become ruined. People have just lost sight of its basis. You don't have to have a lot of money to play around on the internet, to make things for others there. it's how it started, and it's its salvation too.

i've noticed in recent years that the laudable return to personal homepages has generally brought with it a very specific re-imagining of 1990s web design - usually lo-fi 1994 html-only and neon cyberpunkish affairs with loud animated gifs.

lost in that specific imaginary are 1996-1997 corporate designs that brought a slightly more conservative aesthetic that nonetheless remained playful.

if you played Inherit the Earth: Quest for the Orb, Dinotopia, or Faery Tale Adventure 2 you would remember The Dreamers Guild. this is their corporate site still live and maintained by joe pearce and brad schenck.

inherittheearth.net/dgi/indexn

#WorldWideWeb / #WWW picks of the day:

➡️ @w3c - Official org maintaining web standards

➡️ @wai - W3C initiative to make web more accessible

➡️ @owa - Non-profit org protecting open web

➡️ @openwebdocs - Documenting open web tech

➡️ @smashingmag - Magazine for web devs

➡️ @php - Official PHP account

➡️ @django - High-level Python web framework

➡️ @mediawiki - Wikipedia's software for making wikis

➡️ @FirefoxDevTools - Web dev tools built into Firefox

➡️ @ddev - Web dev tool for PHP & Node.js

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in case you were curious about what other webpage hyperlinks came pre-bookmarked with NCSA Mosaic 2.0 alpha, distributed at my local university in the WinSLIP package - a popular freeware/shareware internet connection kit used in many north american universities.

buried in my 30 year old copy of NSCA Mosaic alpha was a bookmarked hyperlink to a university of cambridge (uk) live webcam of a coffee pot, brewing in the Trojan Room computing lab

while live coffee/lab cams were not uncommon in the mid 90s, this one is fascinating for a few reasons:

- it was up and running in 1991, predating the graphical world wide web by a few years
- it ran over the MSNL protocol using a telecom network standard called ATM, which was a competitor to ethernet
- an entire machine was dedicated to grabbing a frame from the camera, compressing it, and uploading to the web server: an Acorn Archimedes 🔥
- the exact URL stored in Mosaic still resolves today, and the web page hasn't changed in 30 years

www.cl.cam.ac.uk/coffee/coffee

more history of the setup here:
www.cl.cam.ac.uk/coffee/qsf/co

more images of the sacred pot by @quentinsf here:
statusq.org/archives/2024/07/1

"On August 6, 1991 [33 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."

info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/The

Happy birthday, web!

Via npr.org/2021/08/06/1025554426/