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The World Wide Web !

Conceived in a paper written on March 12, 1989 at CERN, the WWW idea turns 25 today.

Concepts in Berners-Lee's paper:

bit.ly/1eBedal

Note he called it the "Mesh" - didn't come up with "World Wide Web" until 1990.

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The internet itself has been around much longer than 25 years, but the "Mesh" was the idea for organizing large amounts of non-linear hypertext information without using hierarchies, trees, keywords. Similar to Apple's old single-user Hypercard app, but allowing the linking and searching by multiple computers.
 
Hum, credits just came up for "Underground: The Julian Assange Story" on Netflix as I read your post.
 
Mosaic!!
 
Mosaic? way too modern. Ever use the *earlier* browser, actually called "WorldWideWeb"?

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Wow - I remember when I first started the networking at UConn, showing faculty the new-fangled ways to telnet, gopher, and ftp.

Actually just last week I taught a guy in NY how to FTP a big file, when his fancy-dancy graphical email app "balked".

(I really feel ancient now ...)
 
I was late to the party, Tom. Had no *nix system then. And the time it took to ~successfully~ download Mosaic durn-near had me in tears.
 
ARPA-NET! Oct 1969.

At the time, I was in college and driving a pathetic TR3

My brother was just at the ARPA energy conference in DC last week.

I did my first networking ~'81 via an audio-modem set up to recieve a telephone handset. We did our data entry with teletypes (I was verifying Fortran programs used with NC machining code).
 
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