NationStates Jolt Archive

Yep....Aug 6 1991....

WWW made available to the general public.

http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/1991/08/art-6484.txt

I still remember when Al Gore cut the red ribbon around my modem.

Happy birthday! :D

yay and happy birthday
*gives a cake*

I wonder what life was like before the internet?

I wonder what life was like before the internet?

Not that much different....just a bit slower...

But there is a difference between the internet and the World Wide Web....

The internet is the transport mechanism while the WWW is a communications tool that runs on top of the internet. Basically :)

Less porn.

*sniff* So beautiful...

No! The Internet is a series of tubes. Or so congress tells us.

Funnily enough it was pr0n that allowed the internet to expand as rapidly as it has. The ease of the WWW concept also drove that expansion.

Tube - yeah...I tried listening to the esteemed senator...but the guy was talking sheer gibberish. I'd have expected more from a political leader. Not! ;)

Hmm, I didn't know the Internet had the same birthday as me. However, I am 9 years older :D

Hmm, I didn't know the Internet had the same birthday as me. However, I am 9 years older :D

Many happy returns! :)

I wonder what life was like before the internet?

The pre-Internet hominids used stone tools and worshipped some sort of religious icon called "Betamax". [nods knowledgeably]

Speaking seriously, though, the WWW is not the same as the Internet. The Internet is the hardware network that the World Wide Web, a software communication protocol, runs on top of.

The pre-Internet hominids used stone tools and worshipped some sort of religious icon called "Betamax". [nods knowledgeably]

Speaking seriously, though, the WWW is not the same as the Internet. The Internet is the hardware network that the World Wide Web, a software communication protocol, runs on top of.

Ah yes, Lord Betamax, how I loved thee, with your reference-quality audio and video...

Thank GAWD for the WWW!!!!!!!!1111 :eek:

The first 15 years were great, but we can only wonder at what the next 15 will bring. I think it's going to kick more ass than we can imagine right now...

Cool. Im older than it. xD Happy Birthday.

Hmm, I didn't know the Internet had the same birthday as me. However, I am 9 years older :D

WWW != the internet (it is just a subset of it).

WWW != the internet (it is just a subset of it).

Anal retentiveness is boring.

The first 15 years were great, but we can only wonder at what the next 15 will bring. I think it's going to kick more ass than we can imagine right now...

One thing is for sure....the current 'buzzword' is convergence.

The idea is to make the WWW available via many different tools from the normal computer (PC/Laptop) to telephones (3G and other wireless protocols) to your car and even your microwave and washing machine.

Some of these, like washing machines, will use the ability to connect to the internet to run diagnostics or even arrange service calls for an engineer to come over and look at the machine.

For me the ultimate horror will be when my cooker starts making recipe suggestions....that is the day I become a Luddite

:gundge:

Hmm, I didn't know the Internet had the same birthday as me. However, I am 9 years older :D

Sly. ;)

I wonder what life was like before the internet?
a major drag.

No! The Internet is a series of tubes. Or so congress tells us.
Fucking right! check my sig:D And of course a very happy Birthday to the interwebs who without, my life would lose much of its joy.

Yep....Aug 6 1991....

WWW made available to the general public.

http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/1991/08/art-6484.txt


The internet went from THAT to This (http://www.titane.ca/concordia/dfar251/igod/main.html) in just over 10 years... or was it 8?

Yep....Aug 6 1991....Missed it by four years. Almost exactly, in fact.

Then again, that was around when I first started hitting BBSs. Mmm... Door Games...