Saturday, September 21, 2013

Surf the Internets History, or Go Back in Time

"The history of the internet began long before the first web browser was made in 1990. But as such a new development, an entire account of how today's web was created still isn't much to go through, and on Web Directions' "Web History, a timeline," the full story is catalogued and laid out in major milestones for you to follow along — even if you don't already know what CSS or the ACID test are. The milestones can get technical, but they're always explained and never so dense as to be unintelligible. For the most part though, you'll be scrolling past milestones you may well remember, and picking up trivia, like the first the term "surfing" was ever used in conjunction with the web, which happened in 1991."

Example here. (I cant embed the catalog, I would if I could. Remember to click > when you get to the page)

1941 ideas

The Garden of Forking Paths
First published in 1941, Jorge Luis Borges short story 'The Garden of Forking Paths' is considered to prefigure ideas of hypertext.

As Johnny used to say - "I did not know that".

The Verge



15 comments:

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betamax3001 said...

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Welcome the Turtles.

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virgil xenophon said...

@betamax3001/

Are you sure you're not related to betamax3000? lol

betamax3001 said...

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Lem Vibe Bandit said...

Hi beta, cant post now, good to see ya.

Trooper York said...

Sometimes the best thing to do is go back into internets history and erase your footprints.

That can be very satisfying.