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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Pepo

“This project is experimental and of course comes without any warranty whatsoever. However, it could start a revolution in information access.”

Jay Hoffmann

One of the most important moves in the short history of the Information Age, ongoing and many thanks to TBL

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.

Jon Dueck

“This project is experimental and of course comes without any warranty whatsoever. However, it could start a revolution in information access.”

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