[Gllug] OT, but funny

[David Damerell]

On Wednesday, 12 Dec 2001, Ivan Dimitrov wrote:
>On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, David Damerell wrote:
>>Actually, Tim Berners-Lee's post announcing the Web - with a barely
>>usable text browsing facility - is late 1991. Pre-gopher. Nice try.
>could you provide links for that in the web?

Please don't top-post.

What, you don't read the Register? There's always one...

<http://www.google.com/googlegroups/archive_announce_20.html> - this
timeline includes B-L's August 1991 posting
<http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=6487%40cernvax.cern.ch>
announcing the Web (including mentions of an already extant HTTP,
which you say dates from 1993), the September 1991 announcement of
Gopher
<http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=1991Sep10.020238.4751%40cs.umn.edu>,
Linus Torvalds' October 1991 announcement of his pet project
<http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=1991Oct5.054106.4647%40klaava.Helsinki.FI>,
and Marc Andreessen's March 1993 announcement of NCSA Mosaic
<http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=MARCA.93Mar14225600%40wintermute.ncsa.uiuc.edu>.


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