As I'm reading this topic I've already learnt that -
‘The first weblog was the first website, http://info.cern.ch/, the site built by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN.
From this page TBL pointed to all the new sites as they came online. Luckily, the content of this site has been archived at the World Wide Web Consortium… NCSA's What's New page took the cursor for a while, then Netscape's What's New page was the big blog in the sky in 1993-96. Then all hell broke loose. The Web exploded…
I'm currently visiting the info.cern.ch and already impressed with the intro statement -
"1990 was a momentous year in world events. In February, Nelson Mandela was freed after 27 years in prison. In April, the space shuttle Discovery carried the Hubble Space Telescope into orbit. And in October, Germany was reunified.Then at the end of 1990, a revolution took place that changed the way we live today."
I'm also checking out the following links http://www.boraski.com/www/hypertext.html & http://www.boraski.com/www/ht.html
It's worth checking out to see how things have changed over the years... I think you also get an in appreciation of this development too.
Here an interesting fact to note*
Hypertext, which most of us would associate with the WWW in fact predated the web – some would say by almost 50 years, if we take Vannevar Bush’s Memex as its theoretical starting point.
The term ‘hypertext’ was first described by Ted Nelson in 1965, who later went on to develop the Xanadu project. The first really successful hypertext system available to the public was the Apple computer HyperCard system.
In 1989 a group at CERN led by Tim Berners Lee began developing a protocol which would enable a world-wide hypertext system, this system became known as the WWW, and utilised html, http & urls. Berners Lee made the system available online for free in 1991. Shortly after, the first user friendly graphical browsers were developed with Mosaic appearing in 1993, and later, Netscape Navigator.
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