IP: Web birth dates

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 11:41:52 -0500
> To: David Farber <dave () farber net>
> From: Ari Schwartz <ari () cdt org>
> Subject: Web birth dates
>
> Hi Dave,
>
> Interesting that this should come up.  A calendar of the great dates of 
> computer, freedom and privacy should be arriving this week in the mail to 
> past attendees of the CFP conference to promote CFP2002 -- 
> http://www.cfp2002.org
>
> Diana Peterson, a Georgetown graduate student, did extensive research to 
> help us put this together.  We could not find an exact day for the first 
> Web page.  The closest we came was in Tim Berners-Lee's book "Weaving the 
> Web" which says that:
>
> "The WorldWideWeb browser/editor was working on my machine and Robert's, 
> communicating over the Internet with the info.cern.ch server by Christmas 
> Day 1990."
>
> Tim then discribes the effort to put the CERN phone book up in HTML.
>
> Since this was not very precise, we decided that the date we would use in 
> the CFP2002 calendar was April 30, 1993 -- "CERN makes WWW free of charge."
>
> Anyone who has not attended CFP or is not on the CFP mailing list can 
> request a calendar for free (while they last) simply by sending me their 
> mailing address.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Ari
>
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> > > "Do you know if Dec. 13th was any kind of Web-related anniversary? I was 
> > > told that
> > > the first Web page was posted on 12/13/1991, but haven't been able to
> > > confirm. Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated."
> > >
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