The World Wide Web at 25: in pictures

Well, they say 25 but I remember being on the internet in the very early 80s via an EBBS. Anyhow, an interesting photo essay @ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technolo...Wide-Web-at-25-in-pictures.html?frame=2836968

 

Ain't that just crazy to reflect on

 

A common misconception but there is a difference between the internet and the World Wide Web. The internet is the underlying structure that also handles things like e-mail and FTP. The WWW is "just" the web pages. The internet (and it's predecessors) did indeed exist some time before the WWW was developed.

 

Skim reading the website, I saw no mention of DARPA, the entity that essentially developed the technology...mainly TCP/IP, the plumbing that makes the Internet possible.

 

The WWW may be about 25 years old, but Internet technology in general is nearly 50 years old.

 

Are you sure that is the Internet, and not FidoNet?

Almost no BBS software until the mid 1990's was TCP-IP compatible. However, most of us with FOSSIL drivers were able to import FidoNet and other "Usenet like" news groups.

Myself, I used QuickBBS, Wildcat (briefly) then Remote Access.

 

I have absolutely no idea what the technical stuff was. I had a hard enough time going through the DOS procedure for booting my Franklin-1200. Even today, I have no idea how I get onto the Internet except it's through my Cox.net ISP. I continually find myself having problems with browsers and just today found the tool bar for this Opera browser.

 

Wow, I remember those things! Basically an Apple II clone, Franklin was almost sued out of business because of these. Interestingly enough, my first PC was a Franklin PC8000. Still have fond memories of that old thing.