According to CNN, 21 years ago today the first website went online and still exists today. It is all about the Word Wide Web. If you care for a little flashback, you can check it out here:
http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html
We’ve come a long way baby!
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Talk about primitive…
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I had forgotten just how basic it all began.
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I got my first laptop in 2004, and I was considered to be a ‘late starter’. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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It certainly started out slowly. My first online interaction with others was through a bulletin board on Prodigy. Dial-up of course.
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I think it wad started a lot earlier than that. I remember it being around in the early 90s. 21 years would be 2000 – after Y2K and the dot com bust.
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That makes sense, Dan. I should look at the archives for that address and see what it says. Now that you say that, I was definitely online way before I was married in 1996. I was using Prodigy years before so I guess we classify this as fake news!
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It might be 31 years – maybe just a typo 🙂
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I went back to the article because I thought maybe the typo was mine – it wasn’t.
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I was nervous pointing it out. I don’t normally do that, but I figured it wasn’t your fault.
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Never be nervous to correct what I write. If I had taken a moment to think, I would have realized it.
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I’d guess 21 years would be a typeo indeed. I got my first Internet connection, dial-up, in May of 2002 and there were a ton of websites already.
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I think you might be right.
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I thought the first webpage was “Hamster Dance”. Is it still around? Do you remember it as fondly as I do?
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Well, I had to look it up and once I saw it I did remember it. The Wikipedia page explaining it was quite interesting to read – all about how it originated. That was 1998 so CNN’s date was just blown out of the water.
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I am sure it was earlier, though perhaps not with that name. I have had an Amazon account since 1997 when I ordered my first books.
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Yes, my brain did not engage when I read the date. It was definitely earlier than that.
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August 6th 1991 if the World Wide Web is to believed!!
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That sounds more feasible, Peter.
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When ever it first came, it sure changed the entire world.
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It sure did, Don. Some for the better and some…well, you know.
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Oh, this is wonderful. I’m feeling nostalgic all of a sudden. I remember websites like this one, back when ye olde www was just a baby. So simple
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We had no idea what was coming. None whatsoever.
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We sure have 💜
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