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First Website (1992)

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Re: First Website (1992)

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Post by d0mine »

aldto wrote: post #36
Nition wrote: post #9

When this was first created, how did people usually navigate back to the previous page? I notice there are no "previous" or "home" links here. Was there a "back" button/key, or would you have to edit the URL directly? Edit: Answered my own question I think. If you choose the option to browse "using the line-mode browser simulator", you can literally type in "Back" to go back.

It looks like you can also shorten "Back" to "b". So far, I like this line-mode browser simulator much more than what is commonly available for the command line (lynx or links2). Does any one know of a modern implementation of it? (Where links are numbered instead of the user having to navigate around the document).

There are browser extensions such as Vimium C that provide keyboard-based navigation.

Re: First Website (1992)

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Post by TedDallas »

Ugh, memories. I'm so old my first web browser was Mosaic and I think I saw this. I used a provider called Texas MetroNet that served up dial-up PPP connections for $45 a month on a speedy 28.8K baud modem. Days of wonder, I tell ya.

New days of wonder seem to be ahead, though. That said, there's about 100X more angst involved these days.

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Post by rapnie »

On university campus when our student dorms got internet wired, we first got Gopher, and I remember - because it was hard to follow all these technology developments - that the web was like 'suddenly' there, and we started surfing. Everyone making the switch. Early pages were often copies of their Gopher equivalents.

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Post by QuantumNomad_ »

gerdesj wrote: post #14
whatsupdog wrote: post #4

Banned in UAE (at least on DU)

That's rather sad, its just a museum exhibit about the www, so prohibition might look like a pathetic attempt at revisionism. What is DU?

Looks like DU is an UAE telecom company.

https://www.du.ae/personal

Re: First Website (1992)

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Post by iberator »

jsrcout wrote: post #38
hackingonempty wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The NCSA What's New page! https://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/the-web/20/388/21...

I've been trying to track down "What's New" for a long long time. If memory serves, there was a daily email titled "What's New on the World Wide Web" - very possibly the source for this monthly summary. It was a fascinating way to experience the early WWW's exponential growth. It started out small, but once it began to grow, you could see it expanding faster and faster practically in real time. At first it only took…

If you remove commercial and edu and gov sites it's still doable today to track NEW unique websites today. There are less and less personal webpages due the instagram and fb etc
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