15
years ago today, Tim
Berners-Lee publicly released his WWW project onto the Internet. According to Wikipedia:
“On August 6, 1991, he [TBL] posted a short summary of the World Wide Web project on
the alt.hypertext newsgroup. This date also marked the debut of the Web as a publicly
available service on the Internet.”
As the Wikipedia states, this was the point when hypertext was married to the
Internet.
The original alt.hypertext posting is still
available, thanks to Google Groups:
“The WWW project merges the techniques of information retrieval and hypertext to make
an easy but powerful global information system.”
Also note that Berners-Lee made available the first Web browser – “prototype (very
alpha test) simple line mode browser” – and the first hypertext editor. For, you know,
reading and writing on the Web 😉
Via Alex
and Justin and Jeremy, who points to a BBC timeline.
