The birth of the WWW
posted at 12.31amTen years ago, the idea of the world wide web was mocked and applauded in equal measures, and an article by Wired Magazine, celebrating ten years of the net, has the whole story.
‘In late 1994, Time magazine explained why the Internet would never go mainstream: “It was not designed for doing commerce, and it does not gracefully accommodate new arrivals.” Newsweek put the doubts more bluntly in a February 1995 headline: “THE INTERNET? BAH!”‘
The article, by Kevin Kelly, goes into great detail about the first steps of the net, the surprising-to-some explosion of popularity in all things online, and even goes on to discuss what we might see ten years from now. A very interesting read to anyone who wants to understand how the medium you’re using right now came about.
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