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

[kargas@kolektiva.social]

@pty @stefan @timbl

Wow line-mode browser! I remember using that at Michigan State back in... 1992? My CompSci prof was convinced that the Web was going to replace Gopher. I guess he was right.

[stefan@stefanbohacek.online]

@liaizon This is awesome! Really brings you back to the early days. Innocent times.

@ricci

[stux@mstdn.social]

@stefan @timbl That’s so cool! The very first website is 2 years older than I am

[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