Tim Berners-Lee's Original Announcement (1991)

This turned out to be a historic announcement. Note that the release was in source and binary form. The liberal copyright policy wisely chosen by Tim Berners-Lee was an important reason for the WWW's success.<p>In contrast, this post again reminds me that the Usenet-archives are now owned by Google. Are they also available anywhere else? Like the WWW they are part of the world's cultural heritage. It's good that the archives are accessible, but they shouldn't be proprietary.

21 years to go from science lab side-project to the foundation of many of the largest multi-billion dollar companies in history and the glue to a worldwide communication network right out of science fiction. What will the next 21 years bring?

<p><pre><code> &#62; However, it could start a revolution in information access. </code></pre> They had no idea.

I take nothing away from what he did and I'm one of those people who dislike it when some people belittle what he did. He did the browser and the protocol and the url scheme. The excellence of NeXTSTEP helped. I only recently learned that a lot of the design of html, in terms of deciding how to fit sgml to markup the "Web" was also Dave Raggett. So people who say TBL "copied" SGML are wrong in two ways. There was also Calliau. Then all the other html "tags" that came afterwards, with NSCA Mosaic and Netscape and then W3C additions. Andreessen famously suggesting img etc. But TBL joined html with what else it needed to take over.

I haven't seen anyone link to it yet, so here is that first server (magnet link): <a href="https://gist.github.com/3404362" rel="nofollow">https://gist.github.com/3404362</a><p>There was a Reddit effort to recover it some months back, as it was believed to be lost. (It's now on the w3.org page, but IIRC, either it wasn't then, or it's a slightly later version published there).<p><a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/compsci/comments/q4e57/help_save_the_worlds_first_webserver_we_need_to/" rel="nofollow">http://www.reddit.com/r/compsci/comments/q4e57/help_save_the...</a>

<p><pre><code> However, it could start a revolution in information access </code></pre> I'll say...

Today's version:<p>Show HN: My weekend project, WorldWideWeb (5 days from funding, Kickstarter details in comments!)

Actually, the earliest mention is here: <a href="http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=6487%40cernvax.cern.ch" rel="nofollow">http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=6487%40cernvax.cern.ch</a><p>Other famous usenet posts: <a href="http://www.google.com/googlegroups/archive_announce_20.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.google.com/googlegroups/archive_announce_20.html</a>

I just read that and thought "meh...". I wonder how many such invention I pass everyday

But it was on August 6? Right?

OK, but why? I mean, who here hasn't seen this or know about it?

The Web is now old enough to drink! Let's buy the Web a drink.