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I like the tidbit about how <IMG> came to be: Date: Thu, 25 Feb 93 21:09:02 -0800 From: Marc Andreessen (marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu) Subject: proposed new tag:

I like the tidbit about how <IMG> came to be: Date: Thu, 25 Feb 93 21:09:02 -0800 From: Marc Andreessen (marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu) Subject: proposed new tag: IMG I'd like to propose a new, optional HTML tag: IMG Required argument is SRC="url". ... http://1997.webhistory.org/www.lists/www-talk.1993q1/0182.html http://1997.webhistory.org/www.lists/www-talk.1993q1/0182.ht... The same www-talk mailing list also included emails from Tim Berners-Lee and Guido van Rossum: http://1997.webhistory.org/www.lists/www-talk.1993q1/ http://1997.webhistory.org/www.lists/www-talk.1993q1/

lioeters 3y ago
Guido circa 1993: > I have written a robot that does this, except it doesn't check for valid SGML -- it just tries to map out the entire web. I believe I found roughly 50 or 60 different sites.. It took the robot about half a day (a saturday morning) to complete. Do I understand correctly that there were only 60 sites on the entire web? Looking at the history of the web on Wikipedia, apparently so. > [Berners-Lee] got a working system implemented by the end of 1990, including a browser called WorldWideWeb (which became the name of the project and of the network) and an HTTP server running at CERN. As part of that development he defined the first version of the HTTP protocol, the basic URL syntax, and implicitly made HTML the primary document format. > The technology was released outside CERN to other research institutions starting in January 1991, and then to the whole Internet on 23 August 1991. The Web was a success at CERN, and began to spread to other scientific and academic institutions. Within the next two years, there were 50 websites created. > CERN made the Web protocol and code available royalty free in 1993, enabling its widespread use.