[LINK] List of 6898 WWW servers as of November 7, 1994
Fernando Cassia
fcassia at gmail.com
Sat Feb 21 15:42:28 AEDT 2009
<On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 7:59 PM, Antony Barry
<tony at tony-barry.emu.id.au> wrote:
> This takes me back - <http://mit.edu/~mkgray/project/comprehensive/
> lycos.html.gz>. A few of them are still going. Anybody on link
> recognise their early handiwork?
>
> Tony
Remember the days when hypertext was thought as a learning tool, so
everyone did an extra effort of
linking words to actual word meanings and sites?
For instance, do you remember when in Web articles one would say
"It allows for the use of networked laser printers like the popular <A
HREF="http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&taskId=120&prodSeriesId=84028&prodTypeId=18972&prodSeriesId=84028&objectID=bpl12260">HP
Laserjet</A>, shared on a <A
HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_network">Home Network</A>
using the <A HREF="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetBIOS">Netbios</A>
protcol
Of course, it was also abused at the time (like the infamous <BLINK>
tag, but nowadays such informative linking is mostly gone, you can
read articles that are several "web" pages long and there's not a
single link in sight.
FC
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