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."
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Steph L. - Aug 07, 2012 9:11:11 am PDT #17300 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
DavidS - Aug 07, 2012 9:19:07 am PDT #17301 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
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.
Amy - Aug 07, 2012 9:19:57 am PDT #17302 of 30001
Because books.
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!
§ ita § - Aug 07, 2012 9:27:29 am PDT #17303 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
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..."
tommyrot - Aug 07, 2012 9:30:36 am PDT #17304 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
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.
DavidS - Aug 07, 2012 9:32:52 am PDT #17305 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
You sure it was FTP and not Gopher?
Pretty sure? That's the first time I encountered the phrase File Transfer Protocol.
tommyrot - Aug 07, 2012 9:33:13 am PDT #17306 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I remember using ARCHIE and VERONICA. I eventually found a dial-up BBS that would give me command-line access to the Internet.
Jessica - Aug 07, 2012 9:34:47 am PDT #17307 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
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!
Hil R. - Aug 07, 2012 9:37:32 am PDT #17308 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
My dad signed up for Prodigy in 1991 or 92.
My dad signed up for AOL around the same time. I also tried a few dial-up BBSes that some other geeky kids at school said were good, but I never really got into any of them.
Amy - Aug 07, 2012 9:39:53 am PDT #17309 of 30001
Because books.
Man, we didn't have internet until ... 1998?