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posted by janrinok on Monday March 10 2014, @01:52AM   Printer-friendly
from the happy-birthday-to-you dept.

AnonTechie writes:

"For those of you who remember Gopher, Minitel, and Compuserve, the article is an interesting reminder of what once was, and for those born more recently a chance to read about a time before 'http' and 'www' had any meaning."

From an article by phys,org,

Twenty-five years ago, the World Wide Web was just an idea in a technical paper from an obscure, young computer scientist at a European physics lab. That idea from Tim Berners-Lee at the CERN lab in Switzerland, outlining a way to easily access files on linked computers, paved the way for a global phenomenon that has touched the lives of billions of people. He presented the paper on March 12, 1989, which history has marked as the birthday of the Web. But the idea was so bold, it almost didn't happen.

 
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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Geezer on Monday March 10 2014, @10:24AM

    by Geezer (511) on Monday March 10 2014, @10:24AM (#13814)

    When I first explored beyond my Prodigy account and got a first look at AOHell, the thought immediately came to mind, "Wait until the marketing and advertising assholes get hold of this." I was right.

    For 25 years, practically every innovation and implementation has been driven by the imperative to jam more ad crap onto a screen. Any benefit to actual user experience and functionality has been purely secondary.

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