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“The World Wide Web … is arguably roughly 40 years old.” 1993 was 30 years ago not 40. I see no valid argument that there was any WWW in the early 1980s.
by oofbey 3y ago
“The World Wide Web … is arguably roughly 40 years old.”
1993 was 30 years ago not 40. I see no valid argument that there was any WWW in the early 1980s.
- reacweb 3y agobefore http (ncsa mosaic is march 1993), I was using gopher, newsgroups and xarchie. When you saw a reference to a program in a newsgroup, it was often easy with xarchie to find a public ftp mirror where you could download it. I remember reading CERT advisories on gopher and having noticed that at my school, the vulnerable command xloadmodule was present (sunOS 4.3). I warned the admin and after 15 days of no reaction and no answer, I became root of all the servers. Good old days ;-)
- oofbey 3y agoThe internet is of course much older than the WWW. And the internet had and still has many non-WWW ways to communicate and publish content. But applying the term "WWW" to any non-HTML non-HTTP technologies is revisionist, and I'd argue just wrong.
- IAmGraydon 3y agoThat's correct. The World Wide Web became available to the broader public 30 years ago On April 30, 1993.