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I was actually surprised that Linux was mature enough that it had a "journal" dedicated to it when the web was new - my memory is hazy, but if I'd had to guess,

I was actually surprised that Linux was mature enough that it had a "journal" dedicated to it when the web was new - my memory is hazy, but if I'd had to guess, I would have guessed that the web actually predated linux. I was definitely already pretty familiar with the world-wide web before I had heard of Linux.

kristopolous 3y ago
It does predate Linux but it's more complicated. Think about Linux Journal at the time as more "Linux newsletter". "The Web" was initially on OpenStep and commercial Unixes like HP-UX, Irix and SunOS. It was becoming dominant at that time amidst its siblings like gopher, uucp, archie, netnews, etc but still was pretty new. Here's a hype video from DEC about the web in early 1994 for example: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-1l6aBgX5UY https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-1l6aBgX5UY That browser is NCSA mosaic btw and I presume that's running Tru64. 1994 was still very much the era of educating people, even professionals, about the WWW