> No, that's much too early. See, for example, > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web, which points out that the
> Web wasn't even a gleam in Berners-Lee's eye until 1980 or so and > wasn't a proposal until late 1990. 1993, when CERN set it free, as it > were, would be a more realistic birthdate; the Wikipedia article dates > that to "April 30, 1993", so that may be what you're thinking of. And a few months later, in the fall of 1993, a group from our company, Quarterdeck, flew out to meet a kid name Mark Andreeson at UCU to license what was called a "browser". We got the first commercial license to Mosaic, but not fully understanding that this stuff was all going to be FREE, proceeded to make it into a product that would go into a shrink-wrapped box at Egghead. Right behind us was a fellow by the name of Jim Clarke who a) hired Andreeson, b) raised $18 mill and c) gave it out for free. Our copies at Egghead languished. Many memories of this pivotal time. Alex _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
