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Re: [LUG] WWW turns 20

 

On Tue, 30 Apr 2013, Martijn Grooten wrote:

Today.

That is, the _open_ WWW turns 20; there had been some proprietary
predecessors. Which makes it all the more reason to celebrate for us.
I don't think "Gopher" was proprietary (nor FTP). I remember using it and 
the Archie search service before http.
1992 was a pivotal year thogh - that's when Al Gore opened up the Internet 
at the time to commercial traffic and that's when things really started. I 
was working for a comping in Bristol at the time and it worked out cheaper 
for us to use our existing Uk/US link (64Kbps!) and get the US office 
connected to the Internet there than to try to get the UK office 
connected! (We had a 9600 baud x25 PSS link at the time)
Gordon

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