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Happy 15th birthday, WWW!

Tim Berners-LeeOn August 6, 1991--15 years ago today--Tim Berners-Lee launched the World Wide Web with a message to the alt.hypertext newsgroup. In the message he says," The WWW project merges the techniques of information retrieval and hypertext to make an easy but powerful global information system," and provides the source code for his prototype line-mode browser, a GUI hypertext editor for NeXT, and a skeleton server daemon. From those humble beginnings, all of this. Thanks, Tim, and Happy Birthday WWW!

[Via kottke.org]

Filed under: Fun, Internet, Mozilla

Turn a friend on to Firefox, be immortalized

World Firefox DayWorld Firefox Day was on Saturday, July 15, and I missed it! Timed to coincide with the Mozilla Foundation's birthday, World Firefox Day is, of course, a day to celebrate the strides Firefox has made and, more importantly (or at least that's the impression the web site gives) to get more people to use it. To that end, if, between now and September 15, you get just one friend to download Firefox, you and your friend will be immortalized both in "an interactive Firefox friends display that will be accessible from within Firefox 2" as well as "a digital wall that will display the names of everyone who participates in Firefox Day" at the Mozilla headquarters in Mountain View, CA. That's kinda cool, I guess.

Filed under: Fun, Hardware

Engadget has crazy fans who bake

Engadget Alienware cakeI am both delighted and alarmed by the winners of Engadget's birthday cake contest. In case you hadn't heard, Engadget has been celebrating its 2nd birthday and ran a contest for the prize was a really sweet Alienware PC. The challenge was to bake the coolest gadget-themed birthday cake. I knew they'd get a lot of entries, but I had no idea the lengths Engadget's crazy readers would go to. I don't want to spoil it for you, but the grand prize winner has a screen. That works. Now I'm hungry for cake.

Filed under: Design, Open Source

GIMP 10th anniversary splash screen winner announced

The GIMPOpen source image editing program the GIMP is celebrating its 10th birthday and to commemorate it they held a contest to design a splash screen. The winner, announced this week, is "Dialed In" by an artist called ix. The winning splash screen accompanies the GIMP's birthday release, version 2.2.10, which can be downloaded from its many mirrors. You can check out all of the entries in the gallery.

[Via Slashdot]

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