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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 ha
by 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 agoAh yes, the Internet Yellow Pages by Harley Hahn. Literally thousands of sites catalogued for your browsing pleasure.
- perl4ever 6y agoNo, 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!"