The other business analyst in the group hasn't signed the NDA and he's sulky every time a topic comes up that I can't go into detail on. It's certainly not a reflection on the quality of our work--he never puts a foot wrong. It just involves my software, that's all. But he's taking it personally, especially since he's been tasked with managing the fallout of the error in my release two weeks ago. I haven't had to face the music on that one, and I'm not looking forward to it. But people are also discouraging me from asking the developer who said she'd verified the change what she had actually done, since she missed the fact we broke stuff.

OK, I didn't know judo competition was this violent.

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The WorldWideWeb (W3) is a wide-area hypermedia information retrieval initiative aiming to give universal access to a large universe of documents.

They misspelled "...aiming to give universal access to a large universe of CAT PICTURES."

The actual page: The World Wide Web project

Oh shit, I remember when it looked like that.

The browser I used was: Web Crawler.

Which had a spider icon. Jilli would've loved it.

I remember pre-WWW when I was going to University owned FTP sites to download geeky academic spiels about Grant Morrison's Doom Patrol.

I thought that was the most amazing thing ever.

Steph, that's good news about your brother. He did a really hard thing.

So, I'm back at work today! It's weird. Feels like my old life again. Huh.

It's weird at first, huh? Enjoy it, though!

I remember pre-WWW when I was going to University owned FTP sites to download geeky academic spiels about Grant Morrison's Doom Patrol.

You sure it was FTP and not Gopher? If it was FTP, then it was probably Archie, which was pioneered by my very own alma mater. Wahoo.

God, I'm blanking entirely on shit for this project, but at least I know I'm not blanking as much as, oh, EVERYONE ELSE, because I'm sending them emails going "Have you done this yet?" and their responses are all "Oh! Uh..."

The first book I bought on the Internet described the Word Wide Web as "experimental." still, it was enough to get me to want to get on the Internet. But this was '93, and I couldn't find a way to access the Internet.

You sure it was FTP and not Gopher?

Pretty sure? That's the first time I encountered the phrase File Transfer Protocol.

I remember using ARCHIE and VERONICA. I eventually found a dial-up BBS that would give me command-line access to the Internet.

My dad signed up for Prodigy in 1991 or 92. But I remember a friend telling me excitedly about "this thing called the World Wide Web - it's like the graphical portion of the internet." Except there were hardly any graphics in those days.

I also have very vivid memories of my Dad and I firing up Netscape for the first time and randomly clicking links until we landed on a French web page and we just looked at each other and asked "...did we just look at a web page from FRANCE????" Like we couldn't believe it was loading from so far away!