<p>"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."</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>
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<p>"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 [...]"</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>In his latest Cybercultural entry, <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@ricmac" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>ricmac</span></a></span> looks at the state of the internet in 1996: portals, e-commerce, web design trends, online music, and the emergence of web apps.</p><p><a href="https://cybercultural.com/p/internet-1996/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="cybercultural.com/p/internet-1996/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">cybercultural.com/p/internet-1</span><span class="invisible">996/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/cyberculture/" rel="tag">#cyberculture</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/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/techhistory/" rel="tag">#TechHistory</a></p>
<p>Happy birthday, CSS!</p><p>"The first CSS specification to become an official W3C Recommendation is CSS level 1, published on 17 December 1996."</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSS" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSS</a></p><p>"CSS stood out because it was simple, especially compared to some of its earliest competitors."</p><p><a href="https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/look-back-history-css/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="thehistoryoftheweb.com/look-back-history-css/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">thehistoryoftheweb.com/look-ba</span><span class="invisible">ck-history-css/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/css/" rel="tag">#CSS</a> <a href="/tags/anniversary/" rel="tag">#anniversary</a> <a href="/tags/webdev/" rel="tag">#webdev</a> <a href="/tags/internet/" rel="tag">#internet</a> <a href="/tags/theweb/" rel="tag">#TheWeb</a></p>
<p>"We’re joined this evening on the Internet. What is an Internet? They’re getting a simul-ah…broadcast of the show tonight. Hello Internet people!"</p><p><a href="https://cybercultural.com/p/video-streaming-1997/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="cybercultural.com/p/video-streaming-1997/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">cybercultural.com/p/video-stre</span><span class="invisible">aming-1997/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/internet/" rel="tag">#internet</a> <a href="/tags/theweb/" rel="tag">#TheWeb</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a> <a href="/tags/cyberculture/" rel="tag">#cyberculture</a></p>
<p>Happy New Year 2009, from One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age!</p><p>"The last year of GeoCities has started. The closure announcement will come on April 23, 2009."</p><p><a href="https://blog.geocities.institute/archives/7454" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="blog.geocities.institute/archives/7454"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blog.geocities.institute/archi</span><span class="invisible">ves/7454</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/internet/" rel="tag">#internet</a> <a href="/tags/theweb/" rel="tag">#TheWeb</a> <a href="/tags/geocities/" rel="tag">#geocities</a></p>
<p>"In Mandarin Chinese, World Wide Web is commonly translated via a phono-semantic matching to wàn wéi wǎng (万维网), which satisfies www and literally means "10,000-dimensional net", a translation that reflects the design concept and proliferation of the World Wide Web."</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wi</span><span class="invisible">de_Web</span></a></p><p>via <a href="https://mastodon.social/@mcc/114605076806447333" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="mastodon.social/@mcc/114605076806447333"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mastodon.social/@mcc/114605076</span><span class="invisible">806447333</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/internet/" rel="tag">#internet</a> <a href="/tags/theweb/" rel="tag">#TheWeb</a> <a href="/tags/worldwideweb/" rel="tag">#WorldWideWeb</a> <a href="/tags/chinese/" rel="tag">#chinese</a> <a href="/tags/language/" rel="tag">#language</a> <a href="/tags/linguistics/" rel="tag">#linguistics</a></p>
<p>Speaking of online communities, is your personal website part of a webring?</p><p><a href="/tags/indieweb/" rel="tag">#indieweb</a> <a href="/tags/webring/" rel="tag">#webring</a> <a href="/tags/personalwebsite/" rel="tag">#PersonalWebsite</a> <a href="/tags/internet/" rel="tag">#internet</a> <a href="/tags/theweb/" rel="tag">#TheWeb</a> <a href="/tags/community/" rel="tag">#community</a></p>
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<p>"By the end of 2002, blogging had blossomed into a thriving ecosystem of colourful personal sites that interconnected to each other via RSS, trackback and blogrolls."</p><p><a href="https://cybercultural.com/p/blogs-rss-2002/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="cybercultural.com/p/blogs-rss-2002/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">cybercultural.com/p/blogs-rss-</span><span class="invisible">2002/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/blogging/" rel="tag">#blogging</a> <a href="/tags/blogs/" rel="tag">#blogs</a> <a href="/tags/rss/" rel="tag">#RSS</a> <a href="/tags/internet/" rel="tag">#internet</a> <a href="/tags/theweb/" rel="tag">#TheWeb</a> <a href="/tags/cyberculture/" rel="tag">#cyberculture</a></p>
<p>"The level of creativity and versatility on display on your average Geocities site is hard to understate. Most were a cross between amateur experiments and love letters to this or that piece of pop culture. They were plastered with recipes, vacation photos, esoteric images, and tidbits of slash fiction."</p><p><a href="https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/exploring-the-web-in-1995/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="thehistoryoftheweb.com/exploring-the-web-in-1995/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">thehistoryoftheweb.com/explori</span><span class="invisible">ng-the-web-in-1995/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/internet/" rel="tag">#internet</a> <a href="/tags/theweb/" rel="tag">#TheWeb</a> <a href="/tags/geocities/" rel="tag">#geocities</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a></p>
<p>Love this! A 22-page DIY web archiving zine that "shows you why everyone should participate in preserving the things on the web they care about, and how anyone can do so (no special expertise required!)".</p><p><a href="https://zinebakery.com/homemade-zines/bakeshop-2-diywebarchiving" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="zinebakery.com/homemade-zines/bakeshop-2-diywebarchiving"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">zinebakery.com/homemade-zines/</span><span class="invisible">bakeshop-2-diywebarchiving</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/internet/" rel="tag">#internet</a> <a href="/tags/theweb/" rel="tag">#TheWeb</a> <a href="/tags/archiving/" rel="tag">#archiving</a> <a href="/tags/webarchiving/" rel="tag">#WebArchiving</a></p><p>Made by <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@quinnanya" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>quinnanya</span></a></span>, <span class="h-card"><a href="https://hcommons.social/@Literature_Geek" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Literature_Geek</span></a></span>, and bunch of other awesome folks, found via <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedihum.org/@lavaeolus" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>lavaeolus</span></a></span> <a href="https://fedihum.org/@lavaeolus/113873744698219704" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="fedihum.org/@lavaeolus/113873744698219704"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">fedihum.org/@lavaeolus/1138737</span><span class="invisible">44698219704</span></a></p>
<p>Remember those "best experienced with [browser name]" badges?</p><p>"MTV's revamped World Wide Web site for MTV contains a heavy amount of original music content and a unique Web browser design. [...] Some of the site's best content, including a grossly appealing game with Beavis & Butt-head, is designed exclusively for Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser."</p><p><a href="https://cybercultural.com/p/browser-war-1990s/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="cybercultural.com/p/browser-war-1990s/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">cybercultural.com/p/browser-wa</span><span class="invisible">r-1990s/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/internet/" rel="tag">#internet</a> <a href="/tags/theweb/" rel="tag">#TheWeb</a> <a href="/tags/internethistory/" rel="tag">#InternetHistory</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/cyberculture/" rel="tag">#cyberculture</a></p>
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<p>"I'm in the process of setting up a WWW server that will blow the socks off your Mosaic viewer!"</p><p><a href="https://cybercultural.com/p/1993-mtv-internet/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="cybercultural.com/p/1993-mtv-internet/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">cybercultural.com/p/1993-mtv-i</span><span class="invisible">nternet/</span></a></p><p><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/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/cyberculture/" rel="tag">#cyberculture</a></p>
<p>"Relational creation means recognizing the value that others have brought to you, and wanting to acknowledge it publicly. That means crediting… that means linking."</p><p><a href="https://tracydurnell.com/2025/01/27/the-open-web-as-gift-economy-part-4/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="tracydurnell.com/2025/01/27/the-open-web-as-gift-economy-part-4/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">tracydurnell.com/2025/01/27/th</span><span class="invisible">e-open-web-as-gift-economy-part-4/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/internet/" rel="tag">#internet</a> <a href="/tags/theweb/" rel="tag">#TheWeb</a> <a href="/tags/openweb/" rel="tag">#OpenWeb</a> <a href="/tags/indieweb/" rel="tag">#indieweb</a> <a href="/tags/gifteconomy/" rel="tag">#GiftEconomy</a></p>
<p>I probably already mentioned it, but <a href="https://www.deadweb.club" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.deadweb.club</a> is a pretty interesting project that aims to connect people interested in exploring "defunct social media platforms, abandoned 3D worlds, and forgotten blogs".</p><p>Their newsletter hasn't been very active, but they just announced a new member joining the team, so definitely worth (re-)subscribing.</p><p><a href="/tags/webhistory/" rel="tag">#WebHistory</a> <a href="/tags/webarchaeology/" rel="tag">#WebArchaeology</a> <a href="/tags/deadwebclub/" rel="tag">#DeadWebClub</a> <a href="/tags/internet/" rel="tag">#internet</a> <a href="/tags/theweb/" rel="tag">#TheWeb</a></p>
<p>"This is, after all, the ephemeral truth of the Internet: if you don’t save it, even if it seems like it’s everywhere momentarily, it will just as quickly disappear."</p><p><a href="https://blog.archive.org/2025/02/05/vanishing-culture-what-early-internet-era-gifs-show-us-about-preserving-digital-culture/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="blog.archive.org/2025/02/05/vanishing-culture-what-early-internet-era-gifs-show-us-about-preserving-digital-culture/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blog.archive.org/2025/02/05/va</span><span class="invisible">nishing-culture-what-early-internet-era-gifs-show-us-about-preserving-digital-culture/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/internet/" rel="tag">#internet</a> <a href="/tags/theweb/" rel="tag">#TheWeb</a> <a href="/tags/internetarchive/" rel="tag">#InternetArchive</a> <a href="/tags/digitalpreservation/" rel="tag">#DigitalPreservation</a> <a href="/tags/archiving/" rel="tag">#archiving</a></p>
<p>"There were very few websites that went beyond text at the start of '94, so to begin with people didn't quite know what to make of [Internet Underground Music Archive]."</p><p><a href="https://cybercultural.com/p/iuma-1994/" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>cybercultural.com/p/iuma-1994/</a></p><p><a href="/tags/music/" rel="tag">#music</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a> <a href="/tags/musichistory/" rel="tag">#MusicHistory</a> <a href="/tags/internet/" rel="tag">#internet</a> <a href="/tags/theweb/" rel="tag">#TheWeb</a> <a href="/tags/internethistory/" rel="tag">#InternetHistory</a> <a href="/tags/internetundergroundmusicarchive/" rel="tag">#InternetUndergroundMusicArchive</a> <a href="/tags/iuma/" rel="tag">#IUMA</a></p>
<p>"The key to [Beverly Hills Internet]'s initial growth over 1995 was helping people who had no technical knowledge of HTML to build a web page on the internet. It offered a “Personal GeoPage Generator” that enabled homesteaders to easily create a home page.</p><p>But more than that, and as the name for its users implied, Bohnett wanted to give people the sense that they had a home on the internet."</p><p><a href="https://cybercultural.com/p/geocities-1995/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="cybercultural.com/p/geocities-1995/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">cybercultural.com/p/geocities-</span><span class="invisible">1995/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/internet/" rel="tag">#internet</a> <a href="/tags/theweb/" rel="tag">#TheWeb</a> <a href="/tags/geocities/" rel="tag">#geocities</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a> <a href="/tags/internethistory/" rel="tag">#InternetHistory</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 "information management system", precursor to the World Wide Web. </p><p>"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.”"</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>"At the beginning of 1995, the internet was still largely the domain of academic-minded geeks and Silicon Valley hippies. But the culture at large was increasingly taking notice of cyberspace.</p><p>Throughout 1995, millions more people went online and thousands of companies bought “dot com” domain names.</p><p>The web was now open for business."</p><p><a href="https://cybercultural.com/p/internet-1995/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="cybercultural.com/p/internet-1995/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">cybercultural.com/p/internet-1</span><span class="invisible">995/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/internet/" rel="tag">#internet</a> <a href="/tags/theweb/" rel="tag">#TheWeb</a> <a href="/tags/earlyweb/" rel="tag">#EarlyWeb</a> <a href="/tags/cyberculture/" rel="tag">#cyberculture</a></p>
<p>"This exercise got me thinking about the ways we attempt to be present and to feel the presence of others in online spaces. I often find myself turning to the Internet when I feel most alone, seeking ways to feel connected to others; to feel seen by others."</p><p><a href="https://sfpc.study/blog/the-playful-internet" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="sfpc.study/blog/the-playful-internet"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">sfpc.study/blog/the-playful-in</span><span class="invisible">ternet</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/internet/" rel="tag">#internet</a> <a href="/tags/theweb/" rel="tag">#TheWeb</a> <a href="/tags/poeticweb/" rel="tag">#PoeticWeb</a> <a href="/tags/indieweb/" rel="tag">#IndieWeb</a></p>
<p>"Most often, I tend to locate the web’s significance in something that feels concrete: in pirate libraries, censorship circumvention, collective knowledge projects, and open data. One thing I think the web does very well [...] is to collapse a lot of things — people, times, places, images, writing — into one place, together."</p><p><a href="https://www.are.na/editorial/what-can-an-image-do" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.are.na/editorial/what-can-an-image-do"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.are.na/editorial/what-can-</span><span class="invisible">an-image-do</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/essay/" rel="tag">#essay</a> <a href="/tags/internet/" rel="tag">#internet</a> <a href="/tags/theweb/" rel="tag">#TheWeb</a> <a href="/tags/images/" rel="tag">#images</a></p>
<p>"It’s strange to think that streaming a song in stereo was so revolutionary back then, but that was the state of the art in online media circa 1996."</p><p><a href="https://cybercultural.com/p/state-of-online-music-1996/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="cybercultural.com/p/state-of-online-music-1996/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">cybercultural.com/p/state-of-o</span><span class="invisible">nline-music-1996/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/music/" rel="tag">#music</a> <a href="/tags/internet/" rel="tag">#internet</a> <a href="/tags/theweb/" rel="tag">#TheWeb</a> <a href="/tags/internethistory/" rel="tag">#InternetHistory</a> <a href="/tags/oldweb/" rel="tag">#OldWeb</a></p>
<p>"There were no books on web design, no best practices."</p><p><a href="https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/the-innovative-designs-of-1995/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="thehistoryoftheweb.com/the-innovative-designs-of-1995/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">thehistoryoftheweb.com/the-inn</span><span class="invisible">ovative-designs-of-1995/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/theweb/" rel="tag">#TheWeb</a> <a href="/tags/internet/" rel="tag">#internet</a> <a href="/tags/earlyweb/" rel="tag">#EarlyWeb</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a> <a href="/tags/design/" rel="tag">#design</a> <a href="/tags/webdesign/" rel="tag">#WebDesign</a></p>
<p>Happy 25th anniversary to this Daily Mail article from the year 2000, proclaiming that internet "may be just a passing fad as millions give up on it".</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>
