Tag: TIM BERNERS-LEE

You know how pretty much every web address starts with http:// or https:// or something similar? After the first few hundred times you probably stopped thinking about it. And most modern web browsers don't even require you to type it at all. But if you add up all the seconds people have spent typing http://, you'd probably have a lot of seconds on your hands. And it turns out, there's no really ...

On August 6, 1991--15 years ago today--Tim Berners-Lee launched the World Wide Web with a message to the alt.hypertext newsgroup. In the message he says," The WWW project merges the techniques of information retrieval and hypertext to make an easy but powerful global information system," and provides the source code for his prototype line-mode browser, a GUI hypertext editor for NeXT, and a ...

Whenever I think about my first days on the web c. 1995 I think of WebCrawler, the original and for awhile the best fulltext web search engine. WebCrawler's creator, Brian Pinkerton, is now working for Technorati ranking the world's blogs, which isn't much different from what he was doing 12 years ago: ranking the world's then-tiny population of web sites. Back in March 1994, about six weeks after ...