WWW opened to all 20 years ago - April 30, 1993

[aspergerian]

Article in LA Times here

Restoration of that first site here

[SuperFreak]

Thanks

[kevdog]

Yes -- and I was there -- Ok not exactly. i remember someone showing me the internet in 1995 with Mosaic -- there were a few pages that I remember viewing but they were all in text with maybe one gif or two. I remember thinking to myself "why would anyone use this??" I believe this was pre Infoseek, Excite, Yahoo search days. Guess my insight back then was a little poor.

[prodigy_]

Ah, Web 1.0. Good ol' days.

Wait... no. I mean, horrible ol' days. 33.6 kbps connections. Buggy, crash-prone browsers. Hideous web pages. And total lack of content - we didn't even have Wikipedia back then, can you imagine?

[oldos2er]

What?! Lynx never crashed for me!

[tgalati4]

Anyone remember WAIS? Wide Area Information Server.

That first site looks a lot like http://craigslist.org

[daredent]

ahhh the good ole days.

[Paqman]

That is a seriously underwhelming site, but I guess they had no way of knowing they'd just changed the world forever.

[lisati]

I remember when having a hand-held calculator was a big deal.

[QIII]

I remember when having a good slide-rule was a big deal!