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<p>&quot;On August 6, 1991 [34 years ago], the first website was introduced to the world. [It] contained information about the World Wide Web Project. It launched at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, CERN, where it was created by British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee.&quot;</p><p><a href="http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html"><span class="invisible">http://</span><span class="ellipsis">info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/The</span><span class="invisible">Project.html</span></a></p><p>Happy birthday, web!</p><p>Via <a href="https://www.npr.org/2021/08/06/1025554426/a-look-back-at-the-very-first-website-ever-launched-30-years-later" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.npr.org/2021/08/06/1025554426/a-look-back-at-the-very-first-website-ever-launched-30-years-later"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.npr.org/2021/08/06/1025554</span><span class="invisible">426/a-look-back-at-the-very-first-website-ever-launched-30-years-later</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/theweb/" rel="tag">#TheWeb</a> <a href="/tags/internet/" rel="tag">#internet</a> <a href="/tags/worldwideweb/" rel="tag">#WorldWideWeb</a> <a href="/tags/firstwebsite/" rel="tag">#FirstWebsite</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a> <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a></p>

<p>&quot;On 30 April 1993 CERN issued a public statement stating that the three components of Web software (the basic line-mode client, the basic server and the library of common code) were put in the Public Domain [...]&quot;</p><p><a href="https://home.cern/science/computing/birth-web/licensing-web" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="home.cern/science/computing/birth-web/licensing-web"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">home.cern/science/computing/bi</span><span class="invisible">rth-web/licensing-web</span></a></p><p><a href="https://cds.cern.ch/record/1164399/" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>cds.cern.ch/record/1164399/</a></p><p>Full text: <a href="https://genius.com/Cern-statement-concerning-cern-w-3-software-release-into-public-domain-annotated" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="genius.com/Cern-statement-concerning-cern-w-3-software-release-into-public-domain-annotated"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">genius.com/Cern-statement-conc</span><span class="invisible">erning-cern-w-3-software-release-into-public-domain-annotated</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a> <a href="/tags/internet/" rel="tag">#internet</a> <a href="/tags/theweb/" rel="tag">#TheWeb</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a> <a href="/tags/computers/" rel="tag">#computers</a> <a href="/tags/publicdomain/" rel="tag">#PublicDomain</a></p>

<p>Good Mornin&#x27; <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a></p>

<p>&quot; I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking.&quot;<br>Have His Carcase</p><p>English author, poet, and playwright Dorothy L. Sayers died <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1957. Sayers is most famous for her detective novels featuring Lord Peter Wimsey, an aristocratic amateur sleuth. She wrote several plays, including The Zeal of Thy House and The Man Born to Be King. Sayers also translated major works, notably Dante’s Divine Comedy. </p><p>Dorothy L. Sayers at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/45867" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/45867"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/45867</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OtD</a> 20 Dec 1973 Spanish fascist PM due to succeed Franco, Luis Carrero Blanco, was assassinated and dubbed &quot;Spain&#x27;s first astronaut&quot; as his car was blown over a five-storey building. His death was credited by some as hastening the return to democracy <a href="https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9258/franco&#x27;s-successor-assassinated" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9258/franco&#x27;s-successor-assassinated"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">stories.workingclasshistory.co</span><span class="invisible">m/article/9258/franco&#x27;s-successor-assassinated</span></a></p>

<p>Happy 17th anniversary to the very first fediverse post, by <span class="h-card"><a href="https://cosocial.ca/@evan" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>evan</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://identi.ca/evan/note/Y0QwGyc1QYilqqawkDrQlg" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="identi.ca/evan/note/Y0QwGyc1QYilqqawkDrQlg"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">identi.ca/evan/note/Y0QwGyc1QY</span><span class="invisible">ilqqawkDrQlg</span></a></p><p>Archived link: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230601175229/https://identi.ca/evan/note/Y0QwGyc1QYilqqawkDrQlg" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="web.archive.org/web/20230601175229/https://identi.ca/evan/note/Y0QwGyc1QYilqqawkDrQlg"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">web.archive.org/web/2023060117</span><span class="invisible">5229/https://identi.ca/evan/note/Y0QwGyc1QYilqqawkDrQlg</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#fediverse</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a> <a href="/tags/fediversehistory/" rel="tag">#FediverseHistory</a> <a href="/tags/onthisday/" rel="tag">#OnThisDay</a> <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> <a href="/tags/identica/" rel="tag">#identica</a> <a href="/tags/firstpost/" rel="tag">#FirstPost</a> <a href="/tags/firstfediversepost/" rel="tag">#FirstFediversePost</a></p>

<p>On this day in 1983, the ARPANET network officially switched to using the TCP/IP protocol, effectively creating the Internet.</p><p>&quot;January 1, 1983 is considered the official birthday of the Internet. Prior to this, the various computer networks did not have a standard way to communicate with each other.&quot;</p><p><a href="https://www.usg.edu/galileo/skills/unit07/internet07_02.phtml" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.usg.edu/galileo/skills/unit07/internet07_02.phtml"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.usg.edu/galileo/skills/uni</span><span class="invisible">t07/internet07_02.phtml</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/internet/" rel="tag">#internet</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a> <a href="/tags/onthisday/" rel="tag">#OnThisDay</a> <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a></p>

<p>On this day in 1927, the president of the AT&amp;T called the secretary of the General Post Office of Great Britain to test the first commercial telephone line across the Atlantic Ocean.</p><p>&quot;Today is the result of many years of research and experimentation. [...] No one can foresee the ultimate significance of this latest achievement of science and organization.&quot;</p><p><a href="https://www.history.com/speeches/first-transatlantic-telephone-call" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.history.com/speeches/first-transatlantic-telephone-call"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.history.com/speeches/first</span><span class="invisible">-transatlantic-telephone-call</span></a></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_telephone" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_telephone"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_</span><span class="invisible">of_the_telephone</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/onthisday/" rel="tag">#OnThisDay</a> <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/phone/" rel="tag">#phone</a></p>

<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OtD</a> 12 Jan 1989 punks were identified as the main problem in a &quot;youth analysis&quot; by the East German govt. Punks were surveilled, arrested and beaten, had their mohawks cut off, movements restricted and badjacketed if they refused to be informants <a href="https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8402/ddr-punk-problem" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8402/ddr-punk-problem"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">stories.workingclasshistory.co</span><span class="invisible">m/article/8402/ddr-punk-problem</span></a></p>

<p><a href="/tags/onthisday/" rel="tag">#OnThisDay</a>, 16 Jan 1970, Dilma Rousseff, a member of the Brazilian guerrilla movement against the military government, was arrested. She was labelled the “Joan of Arc” of the movement. </p><p>In 2011 she became the first woman to be president of Brazil.</p><p><a href="/tags/womeninhistory/" rel="tag">#WomenInHistory</a> <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#History</a> <a href="/tags/womenshistory/" rel="tag">#WomensHistory</a> <a href="/tags/histodons/" rel="tag">#Histodons</a></p>

<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OtD</a> 16 Oct 1854 Oscar Fingal O&#x27;Flahertie Wills Wilde was born in Dublin, Ireland. Moving to London, he became an advocate of libertarian socialism and an early inspiration for what would become a movement for LGBT+ rights. More LGBT+ history in our pod: <a href="https://workingclasshistory.com/tag/lgbtq/?utm_source=dlvr.it&amp;utm_medium=mastodon" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="workingclasshistory.com/tag/lgbtq/?utm_source=dlvr.it&amp;utm_medium=mastodon"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">workingclasshistory.com/tag/lg</span><span class="invisible">btq/?utm_source=dlvr.it&amp;utm_medium=mastodon</span></a></p>

<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OtD</a> 27 Jul 1919 a week of riots erupted in Chicago after a white man threw stones at a young African-American man on a racially segregated beach, killing him, and police refused to arrest the perpetrators. 1000s of Black homes were looted and burned <a href="https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/12477/chicago-racist-riots" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/12477/chicago-racist-riots"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">stories.workingclasshistory.co</span><span class="invisible">m/article/12477/chicago-racist-riots</span></a></p>

<p>On this day in 1938, BBC Television aired the first science fiction TV program, an adaptation of a section of the Karel Čapek play R.U.R.. This play is also famous for coining the term &quot;robot&quot; from robota, or &quot;forced labor&quot;, derived from &quot;rab&quot;, meaning &quot;slave&quot;.</p><p>Article from 2016: <a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/78-years-ago-today-bbc-aired-first-science-fiction-television-program-180958126/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/78-years-ago-today-bbc-aired-first-science-fiction-television-program-180958126/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-n</span><span class="invisible">ews/78-years-ago-today-bbc-aired-first-science-fiction-television-program-180958126/</span></a></p><p>More about the play: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.U.R" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.U.R</a>.</p><p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> <a href="/tags/onthisday/" rel="tag">#OnThisDay</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a> <a href="/tags/scifi/" rel="tag">#scifi</a> <a href="/tags/robots/" rel="tag">#robots</a></p>

<p>“The simple act of walking through a schoolhouse door that had been barred to me, and all people of my color, by the governor of this state - that simple act represented an end to legal segregation in the American South.”</p><p><a href="/tags/onthisday/" rel="tag">#OnThisDay</a>, 11 June 1963, Vivian Malone defies the Governor of Alabama to become the first Black female student at the University of Alabama.</p><p><a href="/tags/womeninhistory/" rel="tag">#WomenInHistory</a> <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#History</a> <a href="/tags/womenshistory/" rel="tag">#WomensHistory</a> <a href="/tags/americanhistory/" rel="tag">#AmericanHistory</a> <a href="/tags/histodons/" rel="tag">#Histodons</a></p>

<p>On this day in 2000, Nupedia, a multi-language online encyclopedia, and predecessor of Wikipedia, was launched.</p><p>&quot;Unlike Wikipedia, Nupedia was not a wiki; it was instead characterized by an extensive peer-review process, designed to make its articles of a quality comparable to that of professional encyclopedias.&quot;</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nupedia" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nupedia</a></p><p><a href="/tags/onthisday/" rel="tag">#OnThisDay</a> <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a> <a href="/tags/wikipedia/" rel="tag">#wikipedia</a> <a href="/tags/nupedia/" rel="tag">#nupedia</a></p>

<p>It was on this day 36 years ago when <span class="h-card"><a href="https://w3c.social/@timbl" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>timbl</span></a></span> submitted his proposal to CERN for an &quot;information management system&quot;, precursor to the World Wide Web. </p><p>&quot;In the proposal, Berners-Lee modestly spoke of wanting to use hypertext, a.k.a. links, to help CERN deal with information storage issues.</p><p>[...]</p><p>His boss’s response?</p><p>“Vague, but exciting.”&quot;</p><p><a href="https://www.vox.com/2019/3/12/18260709/30th-anniversary-world-wide-web-google-doodle-history" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.vox.com/2019/3/12/18260709/30th-anniversary-world-wide-web-google-doodle-history"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.vox.com/2019/3/12/18260709</span><span class="invisible">/30th-anniversary-world-wide-web-google-doodle-history</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> <a href="/tags/onthisday/" rel="tag">#OnThisDay</a> <a href="/tags/internet/" rel="tag">#internet</a> <a href="/tags/theweb/" rel="tag">#TheWeb</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a> <a href="/tags/vaguebutexciting/" rel="tag">#VagueButExciting</a></p>

<p>Happy 9th anniversary to the first Mastodon post!</p><p>Via <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/110985808809440467" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/110985808809440467"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/1</span><span class="invisible">10985808809440467</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/mastodon/" rel="tag">#mastodon</a> <a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#fediverse</a> <a href="/tags/anniversary/" rel="tag">#anniversary</a> <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> <a href="/tags/onthisday/" rel="tag">#OnThisDay</a></p>

<p>If you need something to celebrate today, the Freedom of Information Act was signed into law <a href="/tags/onthisday/" rel="tag">#OnThisDay</a> in 1966.</p><p>&quot;It took [U.S. House of Representatives member John E. Moss] 12 years to get the FOIA through Congress [...] The Moss Committee took it upon itself to reform confidentiality policy and implement punishments for the overuse of classification by officials and departments.&quot;</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_Information_Act_(United_States)" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_Information_Act_(United_States)"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_</span><span class="invisible">of_Information_Act_(United_States)</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/foia/" rel="tag">#foia</a> <a href="/tags/freedomofinformation/" rel="tag">#FreedomOfInformation</a> <a href="/tags/anniversary/" rel="tag">#anniversary</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a> <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a></p>

<p>30 years of hacking the planet.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackers_(film)" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackers_(film)"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackers_</span><span class="invisible">(film)</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/hackers/" rel="tag">#hackers</a> <a href="/tags/hackersday/" rel="tag">#HackersDay</a> <a href="/tags/hacktheplanet/" rel="tag">#HackThePlanet</a> <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> <a href="/tags/onthisday/" rel="tag">#OnThisDay</a> <a href="/tags/film/" rel="tag">#film</a> <a href="/tags/filmhistory/" rel="tag">#FilmHistory</a> <a href="/tags/filmandtv/" rel="tag">#FilmAndTV</a></p>

<p>Astronaut, author, professional football player, and STEM educator Leland Melvin was born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1964. </p><p>Here he is in the greatest photo ever produced by the US space program. </p><p>Image: NASA</p>

<p>Happy 25th anniversary to this Daily Mail article from the year 2000, proclaiming that internet &quot;may be just a passing fad as millions give up on it&quot;.</p><p><a href="/tags/internet/" rel="tag">#internet</a> <a href="/tags/theweb/" rel="tag">#TheWeb</a> <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> <a href="/tags/onthisday/" rel="tag">#OnThisDay</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a></p>

<p>The Mother of All Demos was &quot;a landmark computer demonstration of [...] many of the fundamental elements of modern personal computing: windows, hypertext, graphics, efficient navigation and command input, video conferencing, the computer mouse, word processing, dynamic file linking, revision control, and a collaborative real-time editor.&quot;</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDv-zdhzMY" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDv-zdhzMY"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDv-z</span><span class="invisible">dhzMY</span></a></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mother_of_All_Demos" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mother_of_All_Demos"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Moth</span><span class="invisible">er_of_All_Demos</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/onthisday/" rel="tag">#OnThisDay</a> <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/computers/" rel="tag">#computers</a> <a href="/tags/demo/" rel="tag">#demo</a> <a href="/tags/motherofalldemos/" rel="tag">#MotherOfAllDemos</a></p>

<p>&quot;The first two-network TCP/IP transmission was between the [Packet Radio Van] and ARPANET on August 27, 1976; the van was parked next to Rossotti&#x27;s (since 1956, officially the &quot;Alpine Inn&quot;), a well-known Portola Valley, California biker bar, and wires were run to one of the picnic tables.&quot;</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packet_Radio_Van" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packet_Radio_Van"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packet_R</span><span class="invisible">adio_Van</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/internet/" rel="tag">#internet</a> <a href="/tags/internethistory/" rel="tag">#InternetHistory</a> <a href="/tags/internetage/" rel="tag">#InternetAge</a> <a href="/tags/packetradiovan/" rel="tag">#PacketRadioVan</a> <a href="/tags/arpanet/" rel="tag">#arpanet</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a> <a href="/tags/onthisday/" rel="tag">#OnThisDay</a> <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a></p>

<p>&quot;The internet emoticon truly traces its lineage directly to Fahlman, who says he came up with the idea after reading &quot;lengthy diatribes&quot; from people on the message board who failed to get the joke or the sarcasm in a particular post -- which is probably what &quot;given current trends&quot; refers to in his own, now-famous missive.&quot;</p><p><a href="https://www.wired.com/2011/09/0919fahlman-proposes-emoticons/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.wired.com/2011/09/0919fahlman-proposes-emoticons/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.wired.com/2011/09/0919fahl</span><span class="invisible">man-proposes-emoticons/</span></a></p><p>Archived link: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20250223224043/https://www.wired.com/2011/09/0919fahlman-proposes-emoticons/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="web.archive.org/web/20250223224043/https://www.wired.com/2011/09/0919fahlman-proposes-emoticons/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">web.archive.org/web/2025022322</span><span class="invisible">4043/https://www.wired.com/2011/09/0919fahlman-proposes-emoticons/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/onthisday/" rel="tag">#OnThisDay</a> <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> <a href="/tags/internet/" rel="tag">#internet</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a> <a href="/tags/internethistory/" rel="tag">#InternetHistory</a> <a href="/tags/emoticons/" rel="tag">#emoticons</a> <a href="/tags/emoji/" rel="tag">#emoji</a> <a href="/tags/smiley/" rel="tag">#smiley</a></p>

<p>&quot;Ceefax was the world&#x27;s first teletext service, going live on 23 September 1974. In a pre-internet world, the revolutionary system allowed people to check the latest BBC news and sport updates at the touch of a few buttons.&quot;</p><p><a href="https://www.bbc.com/articles/cvg360rr91zo" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.bbc.com/articles/cvg360rr91zo"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.bbc.com/articles/cvg360rr9</span><span class="invisible">1zo</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> <a href="/tags/onthisday/" rel="tag">#OnThisDay</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/teletext/" rel="tag">#teletext</a> <a href="/tags/ceefax/" rel="tag">#ceefax</a></p>