UPDATE: this is a fake, as pointed out by David Kendal. The Sun newspaper, back in 1992: From: https://twitter.com/The_ChrisShaw/status/640296443408969729/photo/1 Interesting is the fact that they correctly got the fact that the Web isn’t the Internet. Something that mainstream media alway … Continue reading →

Very relevant to this group: CERN Launches Line Mode Browser Emulator http://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/10/01/2331246/cern-launches-line-mode-browser-emulator

We’ve already mentioned Paul Otlet and The Mundaneum museum here. Google Cultural Institute has just published a site dedicated to them, showing how they designed the very first search engine in 1935 by inventing the Universal Decimal Classification system and … Continue reading →

An (arguably) important part of Web history exhibited in a museum. From the article: The Pirate Bay is one of the best known file-sharing brands and in less than a decade the site has well-earned its place in computer history. … Continue reading →

CERN archivist Anita Hollier points me to the “World Wide Web (archives)” section of the CERN document server. It lists many documents that I’m sure would be of great interest to this group, but not much of them is available … Continue reading →

Two public pre-WWW information systems were recently shut down: France Telecom’s Minitel, after 30 years in operation, and BBC’s Ceefax, after 38 years. Both looked very much the same, but the comparison ends there. Ceefax implemented “links” as references to … Continue reading →

Nice article on the Computer History Museum in the NY Times http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/29/arts/design/computer-history-museum-in-mountain-view-calif.html (congratulations to Marc Weber)

“…The remarkable picture was taken on July 18, 1992, by Silvano de Gennaro, an IT developer at CERN and was posted by his then colleague, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the British computer scientist who created the World Wide Web.” http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/9391110/How-the-first-photo-was-posted-on-the-Web-20-years-ago.html

Thanks for the interest a lot of you have already expressed, on this page and offline. Dan Brickley and I will be the chairs of this group, and in the course of next week we will send a “charter”, or … Continue reading →