[HN Gopher] The World Wide Web (1994)
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The World Wide Web (1994)
Author : bubblehed
Score : 35 points
Date : 2023-06-01 11:16 UTC (1 days ago)
(HTM) web link (www.linuxjournal.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.linuxjournal.com)
| nilsbunger wrote:
| "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."
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| I don't know about those fancy graphical browsers, who has those
| kinds of resources to just throw at some pretty pictures?
| JohnFen wrote:
| 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.
| doctor_eval wrote:
| It was pretty amazing at the time. Most tech people I knew
| just used GUIs to tile lots of terminal windows.
|
| I built Mosaic from source remember scrolling through an
| article on Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 in front of my boss.
|
| When the image of the comet hitting Jupiter scrolled into
| view, he nearly fell off his chair.
| ape4 wrote:
| Oh no, I only have 640K
| ant6n wrote:
| That ought to be enough for anybody.
| blakesterz wrote:
| "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"!
| anthk wrote:
| https://linuxgazette.net/archives.html
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| Enjoy.
| Nux wrote:
| Gosh, most of those pages are so fast to load and so
| readable.
| commandlinefan wrote:
| 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.
| irrational wrote:
| 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.
| mostlysimilar wrote:
| I hear "web" often enough when specifically referring to WWW.
| Nowadays most people interact with each other via apps, so I
| think "internet" is accurate enough.
| majikandy wrote:
| Online
| [deleted]
| jasoneckert wrote:
| 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.
| figital wrote:
| WinGopher "Complete" ... $129.00 ...
|
| https://librarytechnology.org/document/7548
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