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Wait a second... "We interviewed a 28yo designer in 2012 who told us he had 17 years experience designing websites. I said, “Tim Berners-Lee doesn’t have 17 ye

Wait a second... "We interviewed a 28yo designer in 2012 who told us he had 17 years experience designing websites. I said, “Tim Berners-Lee doesn’t have 17 years experience designing websites.” “Who’s Tim Berners-Lee?” he asked." 2012 - 17 = 1995. I was making websites, or at least pages, in 1995 and I didn't invent the WWW. Is this intentional irony? If not, it's really depressing.

diroussel 6y ago
But if you had been designing web pages since 1995 and still didn't know who Tim Berners-Lee is, then maybe it makes you look un-observant.
FabHK 6y ago
Good point. Tim Berners-Lee apparently put the first WWW page up by Christmas 1990, and Mosaic was released 1993. Here's the web from 1992... http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html
- perl4ever 6y ago
  Circa 1993, I was "browsing the web" on Lynx (IIRC) via dialing the local public library. That was, however, before I had created any web pages. And before I had any graphical browser running on my own computer. I think I still have a physical book claiming to be a complete listing of the Internet from that era, when the WWW existed, but was a rather small portion of a 2-3 inch thick directory. But it was still considerably more than one CERN site.
  - redler 6y ago
    Ah yes, the Internet Yellow Pages by Harley Hahn. Literally thousands of sites catalogued for your browsing pleasure.
    - perl4ever 6y ago
      No, it was "THE INTERNET DIRECTORY" by Eric Braun. From 1994. Mea culpa, it seems like the World Wide Web section was a list of public clients and I don't see a listing of websites. However, it did attempt to list most other resources on the internet. "The guide with the MOST COMPLETE LISTINGS for: 1500+ Internet and Bitnet Mailing Lists 2700+ Usenet Newsgroups 1000+ Online Library Catalogs (OPACs) 100+ Anonymous FTP Archives and Archie Servers 300+ Gopher Servers Wide Area Information Servers World Wide Web E-text Archives and Resources Project Gutenberg, CETH, OTA, etc. 250+ Electronic Journals And more! Getting access to the Internet Finding resources on the Internet Reaching other networks on the Internet ALL ADDRESSES FULLY VERIFIED!"

diroussel 6y ago

But if you had been designing web pages since 1995 and still didn't know who Tim Berners-Lee is, then maybe it makes you look un-observant.

FabHK 6y ago

Good point. Tim Berners-Lee apparently put the first WWW page up by Christmas 1990, and Mosaic was released 1993. Here's the web from 1992... http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html

perl4ever 6y ago
Circa 1993, I was "browsing the web" on Lynx (IIRC) via dialing the local public library. That was, however, before I had created any web pages. And before I had any graphical browser running on my own computer. I think I still have a physical book claiming to be a complete listing of the Internet from that era, when the WWW existed, but was a rather small portion of a 2-3 inch thick directory. But it was still considerably more than one CERN site.
- redler 6y ago
  Ah yes, the Internet Yellow Pages by Harley Hahn. Literally thousands of sites catalogued for your browsing pleasure.
  - perl4ever 6y ago
    No, it was "THE INTERNET DIRECTORY" by Eric Braun. From 1994. Mea culpa, it seems like the World Wide Web section was a list of public clients and I don't see a listing of websites. However, it did attempt to list most other resources on the internet. "The guide with the MOST COMPLETE LISTINGS for: 1500+ Internet and Bitnet Mailing Lists 2700+ Usenet Newsgroups 1000+ Online Library Catalogs (OPACs) 100+ Anonymous FTP Archives and Archie Servers 300+ Gopher Servers Wide Area Information Servers World Wide Web E-text Archives and Resources Project Gutenberg, CETH, OTA, etc. 250+ Electronic Journals And more! Getting access to the Internet Finding resources on the Internet Reaching other networks on the Internet ALL ADDRESSES FULLY VERIFIED!"