[LINK] Happy Birthday World Wide Web!

[Roger Clarke]

At 10:35 +1000 1/5/13, Jan Whitaker wrote:
>World's first web page recreated 20 years on
>Published: May 1, 2013 - 9:46AM
>http://www.theage.com.au/technology/technology-news/worlds-first-web-page-recreated-20-years-on-20130501-2irul.html 
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There's more detail on the story in a few places, including here:
http://www.rogerclarke.com/II/OzWH.html#WWW

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>The world's first web page will be dragged out of cyberspace and
>restored for today's internet browsers as part of a project to
>celebrate 20 years of the web.
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>The European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) said it had
>begun recreating the website that launched that world wide web, as
>well as the hardware that made the groundbreaking technology possible.
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>The world's first website was about the technology itself, according
>to CERN, allowing early browsers to learn about the new system and
>create their own web pages.
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>The project will allow future generations to understand the origin
>and importance of the web and its impact on modern life, said CERN
>web manager Dan Noyes.
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>"We're going to put these things back in place, so that a web
>developer or someone who's interested 100 years from now can read the
>first documentation that came out from the world wide web team," he said.
>
>The project was launched to mark the 20th anniversary of CERN making
>the world wide web available to the world for free.
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>British physicist Tim Berners-Lee invented the world wide web, also
>called W3 or just the web, at CERN in 1989 to help physicists to
>share information, but at the time it was just one of several such
>information retrieval systems using the internet.
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>"It's one of the biggest days in the history of the web," Noyes said
>of April 30, 1993.
>
>"CERN's gesture of giving away the web for free was what made it 
>just explode."
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>Noyes said that other information sharing systems that had wanted to
>charge royalties, like the University of Minnesota's Gopher, had
>"just sort of disappeared into history".
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>By making the birth of the web visible again, the CERN team aims to
>emphasise the idea of freedom and openness it was built on, Noyes said.
>
>"In the early days, you could just go in and take the code and make
>it your own and improve it. That is something we have all benefitted
>from," he said.
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>While CERN was not promoting any specific ideology, "we want to
>preserve that idea of openness and freedom to collect and
>collaborate," said Noyes.
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>AFP
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>This story was found at:
>http://www.theage.com.au/technology/technology-news/worlds-first-web-page-recreated-20-years-on-20130501-2irul.html 
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