Yes I am going to rant again.. rant warning on…
No I am not going to say that I invented the Internet, the world wide web or even the blog. But the stories like “Not So High-Tech Anymore: The First Website Ever Celebrates Its 20th Birthday” piss me off.
“On August 6, 1991, the first website was launched on the Internet, forever changing the way we browse. (And thankfully, web design has improved just a bit in the past two decades.)…”
So in 1991 you could type in a url and go to a site. Well Howard’s Notebook began in 1982. It was written up in a national magazine (“Link-Up”), in 1984, and I am not sure of the date but about 1984 you could click on a link at Howard’s Notebook and HNB would dial out on my second phone line and connect you with another bulletin board system. If I remember correct you could not type in the link you had to hit the link that I had in the text. Now for sending an Internet email you could on my system type in the email address but I had a number of email addressed written out that you could just click on because people did not know how to write email addresses at that time. I had to explain to people how to address an Internet email.
So I am not knocking Tim Berners-Lee or whatever site he had or whatever in the hell he was doing but there were a lot of people doing a lot of things back in the old days.
So he did something online in 1991 and good for him. Many of us were doing things back in the early 1980s.
They're talking about the world wide web as we now know it and Jim, we were there running portals so people could connect to those WWW pages. They were almost strictly TEXT based but their time line is correct. Prior to the www sites we ported people into USENET! which was NNTP that acted just like our Fidonet Echomail forums.I think you're upset because you're confusing jargons here.
Posted by: Joe Taibi | Sunday, August 07, 2011 at 10:17