Pretty sure that 1995 was the year when I first saw URLs on billboards (both plural) whilst driving down Highway 101 on a trip to the US and thinking "crumbs, this shit we are doing is actually real".
On Thu, 7 May 2020 at 14:15, Clive D.W. Feather <[email protected]> wrote: > David Reader said: > >> The 6th form college I attended between '96-'98 had a /24 with all > >> machines publicly addressed. > > > > [..snip..] > > > >> Of course, it???s worth remembering the web didn???t exist back then > > > > It definitely existed when I was using NCSA Mosaic prior to that. > > 1997 was the year when things moved from "what's a URL?" to every advert on > a tube train having a URL in it. > > -- > Clive D.W. Feather | If you lie to the compiler, > Email: [email protected] | it will get its revenge. > Web: http://www.davros.org | - Henry Spencer > Mobile: +44 7973 377646 > > -- -- Rob Pickering, [email protected]
