BS: Happy Bday web!

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Bday web!
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 13 Nov 10 - 10:14 PM

where would we be without it/them?

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Bday web!
From: Bill D
Date: 13 Nov 10 - 09:06 PM

The WWW is 20... the **Internet** is older.

",... the Internet and the World Wide Web are not one and the same. The Internet is a global data communications system. It is a hardware and software infrastructure that provides connectivity between computers. In contrast, the Web is one of the services communicated via the Internet. It is a collection of interconnected documents and other resources, linked by hyperlinks and URLs."

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Bday web!
From: GUEST,.garoyle
Date: 13 Nov 10 - 08:56 PM

I believe that Susan, Dick, and I have irrefutable proof ... stemming from a deep well ... that "the web" is beyond 20 years.

Sincerely,
Gargoyle

Poor, poor Mr. Gore, what is he good for?
The globe is not warming.
The internet is not his borning.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Bday web!
From: Mrrzy
Date: 13 Nov 10 - 05:21 PM

Whoo hoo! And see how our little one has grown (*sob*!)

Subject: BS: Happy Bday web!
From: gnu
Date: 13 Nov 10 - 04:54 PM

Amos is a virtual fountain of knowledge.... well, he spouts off a lot... but every now and then...

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos - PM
Date: 13 Nov 10 - 10:48 AM

Twenty years ago today, when Vanilla Ice's 'Ice Ice Baby' was at the top of the charts, two engineers at CERN's data handling division requested funding for the research project that would give birth to the web.

The proposal, submitted by Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau on November 12, 1990, laid out what they wanted to build and the resources they'd require. The team wanted to start by building a browser and a server. They estimated development would take six months, and that it would require 'four software engineers and a programmer.' There are also some serious hardware requirements totaling tens of thousands of dollars (or is it Swiss francs?), but about a third of the requested funding was dedicated to software user licenses.

Here's the overview:

    The attached document describes in more detail a Hypertext project. HyperText is a way to link and access information of various kinds as a web of nodes in which the user can browse at will. It provides a single user-interface to large classes of information (reports, notes, data-bases, computer documentation and on-line help). We propose a simple scheme incorporating servers already available at CERN.

MOM!!! HAPPY WEB ANNIVERSARY!!!!