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Did I miss something here...? "In 1991, I started work at NeXT, as Product Manager for Interpersonal Computing. It was the internet, before there was much of a
by mech4bg 14y ago
Did I miss something here...?
"In 1991, I started work at NeXT, as Product Manager for Interpersonal Computing. It was the internet, before there was much of an internet. We called it Interpersonal Computing, but nobody paid attention until 5 years later when the WWW was born."
The web existed in 1991, and Mosaic was launched in 1993. I first saw it in 1993, and it was a pretty big deal at the time. Have I misunderstood his '5 years later' statement?
- leoc 14y ago1996 wasn't when the Web was born, but it is a lot closer to the point in time when the Web and the Internet went mainstream. IIRC 1994 is often given as that year, and even by 1995 it (famously http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Road_Ahead_(Bill_Gates_book) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Road_Ahead_(Bill_Gates_book... ) wasn't obvious to everyone that they were now at the centre of computing.
- csixty4 14y agoYeah. 1994 is when I started seeing Zen and the Art of the Internet on the endcaps at Crown Books. Late 1995-1996 is when I started seeing books about the web given the same prominence.
- rhizome 14y agoThe WWW didn't get its third 'W' until the unrestricted domain market opened up via Network Solutions in 1995.
- brianpan 14y agoI'd say it's a slight mis-statement. It's more accurate if you replace the last three words with "web became more common." BTW, the web was a big deal in a very small circle. In the Fall of 1994, I took a college ENG 100 course that explained how to email and browse the web. It was still very early days.
- yuhong 14y agoIn fact, TimBL itself created the WWW using a NeXT machine.