4 ms·
It's resonable to say that the web caught on outside CERN in 1993, with the release of Mosaic. (Hands up, anyone else who used to subscribe to the NCSA "What's
by cstross 15y ago
It's resonable to say that the web caught on outside CERN in 1993, with the release of Mosaic.
(Hands up, anyone else who used to subscribe to the NCSA "What's new on the web" newsletter in 1993 and visit all the new web servers ... before 10am, every morning?)
- joezydeco 15y agoYup, and also scrub every new USENET post by 10:10. That stupid Yanoff List wrecked everything. =)
- hollerith 15y agoIn 1993, the newsgroups were way too much to read even if that is all a person did, so you must mean using a program to scan the groups for URLs; right?
- DanBC 15y agoGoogle has a fascinating timeline of Usenet news: (http://www.google.com/googlegroups/archive_announce_20.html http://www.google.com/googlegroups/archive_announce_20.html) Even ignoring binary groups a Usenet feed would have been considerable in 1993. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet#Usenet_traffic_changes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet#Usenet_traffic_changes)
- joezydeco 15y agoWell nobody read every newsgroup, did they? I had a core list of 4-5 newsgroups that I would check once daily. On a busy day there would be maybe 20-30 new messages per group. After Eternal September some of those groups went to hundreds daily and got to be too much to cope with in a day.