The very first website is 35 years old today, and you can still visit it at http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html!

[marcialm32@mastodon.social]

That's really Nice, that's sort of really long time. Glad to hear about the Program.

[reinouts@mastodon.green]

@liaizon @ricci @stefan Here's mine. It should have a green background, the yellow-on-white is a bit hard to read... https://web.archive.org/web/19990209110023/http://www.cs.vu.nl/%7Ermvschou/

[ricci@discuss.systems]

@reinouts @liaizon @stefan I love how in those days we were just like "sure, I can claim the concept of 'a rainforest' for my own personal website"

[maramau@x.continuity.space]

@stefan @timbl
Porca vacca passato un altro anno in un baleno!

[ymasumac@mstdn.social]

@stefan @timbl And here’s the computer! I was at CERN a couple weeks ago.

[obscurestar@mastodon.social]

@stefan @timbl We should have stopped at usenet news and Archie TBH.

[stefan@stefanbohacek.online]

@ymasumac

Humble beginnings. Very cool, thank you for sharing!

@timbl

[softproof@mastodon.social]

@stefan @timbl Oh how we swooned. Limitless creative potential...

Now all we do is watch them swoon. Creatively limited potential, but it helps pass the time.

[de_minimis@infosec.exchange]

@stefan @timbl The web died the day the <marquee> tag was deprecated.

[bruce@allovertheplace.ca]

@mcourcel And then Al Gore went and invented it.

[bouriquet@mastodon.social]

@stefan The key that started a process that reached critical mass and multiplied ad infinitum.

[fishidwardrobe@mastodon.me.uk]

@stefan @timbl and it had a FAQ! TIL

[mutedtrampet@dragonscave.space]

@stefan @timbl The 1992 time stamps on the files are still preserved too, wow!

[dougmerritt@mathstodon.xyz]

@kargas
> My CompSci prof was convinced that the Web was going to replace Gopher. I guess he was right.

The jury is still out; we'll see!

@pty @stefan @timbl

[joeinwynnewood@mstdn.social]

@ricci @stefan

I just took a look at the archive folders for my 1st company's website (yeah, I'm a pack rat). The last edit date on oldest file I can see, a gif file, is August 6, 1996, 30 years old today!

I suspect the first iteration was older still, but I can't be sure.

My (only) sales and marketing guy was a bit of a tinkerer and got it started. I did some of the early work and pretty much took over maintenance when he left the following year.

[pettet8@mastodon.social]

@stefan @timbl

Congrats folks - thanks for sharing your brains....

[urticaceae@mastodon.social]

@stefan @timbl links in the picture not working anymore if I click on them

[lianna@micro.webgarden.click]

@stefan @timbl Back when the web consisted of actual hypertext documents instead of style-over-substance walled castle 'websites', or worse, 'web applications'

[tunda@layer8.space]

@stefan @timbl

I'm sorry, but the decline of www is unstoppable.

www meant not world wide web, it means, world wide warehouse (shoping mall) nowaday.

It's not again the internet itself, just whole websites that builed to selling bullshit and cheer on capitalism.

regard tunda

[stefan@stefanbohacek.online]

@tunda I'll have to disagree. I won't argue that things aren't pretty dire. But we have the fediverse, and people are still making and maintaining personal websites and blogs.

The web is definitely not lost yet.

@timbl