At 10:35 +1000 1/5/13, Jan Whitaker wrote: >World's first web page recreated 20 years on >Published: May 1, 2013 - 9:46AM >http://www.theage.com.au/technology/technology-news/worlds-first-web-page-recreated-20-years-on-20130501-2irul.html > >
There's more detail on the story in a few places, including here: http://www.rogerclarke.com/II/OzWH.html#WWW _________________________________________________________________________ >The world's first web page will be dragged out of cyberspace and >restored for today's internet browsers as part of a project to >celebrate 20 years of the web. > >The European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) said it had >begun recreating the website that launched that world wide web, as >well as the hardware that made the groundbreaking technology possible. > >The world's first website was about the technology itself, according >to CERN, allowing early browsers to learn about the new system and >create their own web pages. > >The project will allow future generations to understand the origin >and importance of the web and its impact on modern life, said CERN >web manager Dan Noyes. > >"We're going to put these things back in place, so that a web >developer or someone who's interested 100 years from now can read the >first documentation that came out from the world wide web team," he said. > >The project was launched to mark the 20th anniversary of CERN making >the world wide web available to the world for free. > >British physicist Tim Berners-Lee invented the world wide web, also >called W3 or just the web, at CERN in 1989 to help physicists to >share information, but at the time it was just one of several such >information retrieval systems using the internet. > >"It's one of the biggest days in the history of the web," Noyes said >of April 30, 1993. > >"CERN's gesture of giving away the web for free was what made it >just explode." > >Noyes said that other information sharing systems that had wanted to >charge royalties, like the University of Minnesota's Gopher, had >"just sort of disappeared into history". > >By making the birth of the web visible again, the CERN team aims to >emphasise the idea of freedom and openness it was built on, Noyes said. > >"In the early days, you could just go in and take the code and make >it your own and improve it. That is something we have all benefitted >from," he said. > >While CERN was not promoting any specific ideology, "we want to >preserve that idea of openness and freedom to collect and >collaborate," said Noyes. > >AFP > >This story was found at: >http://www.theage.com.au/technology/technology-news/worlds-first-web-page-recreated-20-years-on-20130501-2irul.html > > > > > > >Melbourne, Victoria, Australia >[email protected] >blog: http://janwhitaker.com/jansblog/ >business: http://www.janwhitaker.com > >Our truest response to the irrationality of the world is to paint or >sing or write, for only in such response do we find truth. >~Madeline L'Engle, writer > >_ __________________ _ >_______________________________________________ >Link mailing list >[email protected] >http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link -- Roger Clarke http://www.rogerclarke.com/ Xamax Consultancy Pty Ltd 78 Sidaway St, Chapman ACT 2611 AUSTRALIA Tel: +61 2 6288 1472, and 6288 6916 mailto:[email protected] http://www.xamax.com.au/ Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Law University of NSW Visiting Professor in Computer Science Australian National University _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
