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Happy 16th Birthday WWW
The World Wide Web turned 16 on Monday! And it looks like we missed its birthday. Nonetheless, we still wish it a happy birthday, and thanks for all of the good times. According to the W3.org site, this URL held the fist web page nxoc01.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html, which is no longer in existence. Dont confuse this with that 15th birthday back in back in August. That one was for Tim Berners-Lee's posting on a newsgroup, and the development of a GUI browser and editor. This birthday celebrates the actual name Word Wide Web, changed from the Information Mesh, Mine of Information, and Information Mine.Too bad, but at least we have archive.org taking snapshots of the web now for generations to look back on. What are your fondest memories of the web so far? Are you happy with its growth and direction? Want to send it a b-day message, drop us a comment.
Now, does the WWW have any other birthdays we don't know about?
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Subscribe to commentscanipanicNov 15th 2006 11:00AM
years ago there was a website called"myspaceonline.com"It was a 3d rpresentation of the web,etc.You had an "apartment" and could do your web surfing by clicking on the buildings where yoiu wanted to go.on my "desk" i had a rolodex,globe(for maps)search window(5 search engines)that was the edge of my desk..it was great..it isn't around any longer.......but now i have found "second life" this is the future of the web i believe