[LINK] Happy 20th Birthday WWW

[Carl Makin]

On 14/03/2009, at 10:24 AM, Tom Koltai wrote:

> Development of Mosaic began in December 1992. Version 1.0 was released
> on April 22, 1993, followed by two maintenance releases during summer
> 1993. A port of Mosaic to the Commodore Amiga was available by October
> 1993. Version 2.0 of NCSA Mosaic was released in December 1993, along
> with version 1.0 releases for both the Apple Macintosh and Microsoft
> Windows. An Acorn Archimedes port was underway in May 1994.

V1 on the Mac (MacMosaic) didn't support forms.  Version 2 did but was  
available for X-windows (unix) only.  That was the big selling point  
of Netscape when it came out.  Those of us not running SunOS could  
finally fill out forms.

I had a slip account at the ANU in 93/94 and was using it to demo the  
"World Wide Web" to anyone who would listen where I worked in the  
systems admin area at the Department of Health.  Unfortunately  
management had decided that the future was GOSIP and this Internet  
thing was a fad so they were only interested in X.400 messaging using  
Telecom's Telememo service via Austpac (X.25) at $0.60/page received.


Carl.