August 19th, 2019
Happy 28th anniversary of the release of the World Wide Web’s codebase, made public by @TimBerners_Lee on August 19th, 1991:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.sys.next.announce/avWAjISncfw
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Jay Hoffmann
seishonagon
@adactio I’m showing my ignorance here, but TBL refers to the “internet” in the announcement. Was that used only for Usenet and other BBS?
rossk
@seishonagon there are other “internet” applications that predate the web, like email, and gopher.
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