Wired: Aug. 7, 1991: Ladies and Gentlemen, the World Wide Web
1991: The world wide web becomes publicly available on the internet for the first time.
The web has changed a lot since Tim Berners-Lee posted, on this day, the first web pages summarizing his World Wide Web project, a method of storing knowledge using hypertext documents. In the months leading up to his post, Berners-Lee had developed everything necessary to make the web a reality, including the first browser and server.
A couple of months after this, I was at a meeting of investment bankers at a ritzy NYC Central Park hotel. There were 200 people crammed into a room watching as this professor from Cornell typed Unix code and displayed it on a big screen TV as she explained how this technology would transform the world. I remember looking around the room a few times and seeing these expressions that looked like, "Who is this freak, and what is she talking about?" 🙂
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