Elsewhere: The “web” is 20 years old today

It was 1989 and Sir Tim Berners-Lee submitted a plan that would make information sharing easier, and that would eventually become the graphical World Wide Web as we know it.

My first exposure to the Internet was in 1993 in college and there was nothing graphical about it; everything was text-based using telnet, ftp, and gopher, and there wasn’t a whole lot of interesting stuff out there (ah, the good ol’ days when nic.funet.fi was the place to connect to).  Later, when Trumpet Winsock and Mosaic 2.0 were available, things got interesting.  It’s hard to believe, but back in 1996, I thought the NY Times had the coolest site (and it took forever to load on a 9,600 baud modem).