Hirohito@fedinsfw.app to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agoAre there any websites from the 90s that you can remember but can find no trace of now?message-squaremessage-square73linkfedilinkarrow-up180arrow-down11file-text
arrow-up179arrow-down1message-squareAre there any websites from the 90s that you can remember but can find no trace of now?Hirohito@fedinsfw.app to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agomessage-square73linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squaretal@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·3 days agoThe world’s first webpage is still up. https://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html Looks a lot like a typical gopher node (or, today, gemini node). Hierarchical tree, link, brief description attached to each link.
minus-squareTreczoks@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 day agoI remember watching that page on an Arena browser in an XWindows terminal on Solaris or SunOS. Back then, it was still hosted on the Cube on Tims desk. And the description I got for this WWW project was “A system like GOPHER, but with hypertext”.
The world’s first webpage is still up.
https://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html
Looks a lot like a typical gopher node (or, today, gemini node). Hierarchical tree, link, brief description attached to each link.
I remember watching that page on an Arena browser in an XWindows terminal on Solaris or SunOS. Back then, it was still hosted on the Cube on Tims desk.
And the description I got for this WWW project was “A system like GOPHER, but with hypertext”.
So nostalgia much wow