Chekhov's Mistress
“Times Fun When You’re Having Flies”
With its seeming ubiquity and infinite depth, it’s hard to believe that the World Wide Web has only been around in the form that we know it for a decade.
It was October 13th, 1994 when Jim Clark and Marc Andreessen released the first public version of Mosaic, the web browser that would later become Netscape.
The World Wide Web was actually created in 1990 by Tim Berners-Lee at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN). He developed the protocols that formed the backbone of the Web, but it took making the Web usable to exploit its potential.
Thats where Mosaic, the graphical user interface (GUI) created by Andreessen, then at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), came in and set off the Internet economy of the 1990s.
Do you Remember where you were?
I do. The next day, October 14th was Columbus day and I moved from Southern California to New York City. I’ve been addicted to this city (and the Web) ever since.
Happy Anniversary Netscape and Happy Anniversary Me!
C|Net has special coverage including links to the original press release, stories on the history and future of browsers and the web, and naturally a ”Where are they now” story: Netscape: Bowed, but not broken
Read widely, think well, and write often.
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- Posted by: Bud Parr
- Date: October 14, 2004
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Song of Myself: Diary
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