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The World Wide Web (1994)

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Re: The World Wide Web (1994)

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Post by nilsbunger »

"Mosaic is truly a high-quality application. But the price for beauty is more memory and disk space. Mosaic consumes over 1.3MB of disk space, and will use about 2MB of RAM while running."

I don't know about those fancy graphical browsers, who has those kinds of resources to just throw at some pretty pictures?

Re: The World Wide Web (1994)

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Post by blakesterz » 

  "The burden of the Web on a Linux server was tested by creating a working Web site on a i386-33 Linux machine. During a 40 day span, the PSU Linux WWW received 5375 requests from 1328 different sites around the world. This is an average of 6.9 requests per hour and 165 per day. The Web requests never interfered with any work being done by other users at the machine. A Linux system can easily provide Web services and have horsepower to spare."
I love reading all the mid-late 90s articles on the web. I guess I'm old enough to say I'm "re-reading" all of this now. I can still remember the first time I saw an animated gif! That damn thing was like magic. This article was bullish, I really love the old ones that say things like "this is a fad"!

Re: The World Wide Web (1994)

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Post by jasoneckert »

It's always nice to see early definitions of the Web, because those definitions are something we've largely lost today on a societal level (or confused with the Internet or the cloud).

The Internet is a worldwide computer network and the World Wide Web refers to the worldwide collection of web servers (wherever they may be) hosting HTML-accessible content. And the cloud is just a new term for the World Wide Web that expands the definition to include the worldwide collection of any Internet-accessible service, including web apps.

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Post by anthk »

blakesterz wrote: post #3

"The burden of the Web on a Linux server was tested by creating a working Web site on a i386-33 Linux machine. During a 40 day span, the PSU Linux WWW received 5375 requests from 1328 different sites around the world. This is an average of 6.9 requests per hour and 165 per day. The Web requests never interfered with any work being done by other users at the machine. A Linux system can easily provide Web services and…

https://linuxgazette.net/archives.html

Enjoy.

Re: The World Wide Web (1994)

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Post by commandlinefan »

blakesterz wrote: post #3

"The burden of the Web on a Linux server was tested by creating a working Web site on a i386-33 Linux machine. During a 40 day span, the PSU Linux WWW received 5375 requests from 1328 different sites around the world. This is an average of 6.9 requests per hour and 165 per day. The Web requests never interfered with any work being done by other users at the machine. A Linux system can easily provide Web services and…

I was actually surprised that Linux was mature enough that it had a "journal" dedicated to it when the web was new - my memory is hazy, but if I'd had to guess, I would have guessed that the web actually predated linux. I was definitely already pretty familiar with the world-wide web before I had heard of Linux.

Re: The World Wide Web (1994)

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Post by Nux »

anthk wrote: post #6
blakesterz wrote: post #3

"The burden of the Web on a Linux server was tested by creating a working Web site on a i386-33 Linux machine. During a 40 day span, the PSU Linux WWW received 5375 requests from 1328 different sites around the world. This is an average of 6.9 requests per hour and 165 per day. The Web requests never interfered with any work being done by other users at the machine. A Linux system can easily provide Web services and…

https://linuxgazette.net/archives.html Enjoy.

Gosh, most of those pages are so fast to load and so readable.

Re: The World Wide Web (1994)

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Post by JohnFen »

nilsbunger wrote: post #2

"Mosaic is truly a high-quality application. But the price for beauty is more memory and disk space. Mosaic consumes over 1.3MB of disk space, and will use about 2MB of RAM while running." I don't know about those fancy graphical browsers, who has those kinds of resources to just throw at some pretty pictures?

I also disagree that Mosaic was a "truly high-quality application". I remember it being a buggy, finicky mess. But it did something unique and brand new, so I put up with it.

Re: The World Wide Web (1994)

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Post by irrational »

I wish they had come up with a different name than WWW or World Wide Web. Those are too long to say. Internet is inaccurate. Web and Net haven’t really caught on, in my experience. I’m not sure what a better name would be, but ideally three syllables or less that people would actually use consistently. Too late now.
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