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Happy 16th Birthday WWW

by Chris Gilmer Nov 15th 2006

The World Wide Web turned 16 on Monday! And it looks like we missed its birthday. Nonetheless, we still wish it a happy birthday, and thanks for all of the good times. According to the W3.org site, this URL held the fist web page nxoc01.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html, which is no longer in existence. Dont confuse this with that 15th birthday back in back in August. That one was for Tim Berners-Lee's posting on a newsgroup, and the development of a GUI browser and editor. This birthday celebrates the actual name Word Wide Web, changed from the Information Mesh, Mine of Information, and Information Mine.

Too bad, but at least we have archive.org taking snapshots of the web now for generations to look back on. What are your fondest memories of the web so far? Are you happy with its growth and direction? Want to send it a b-day message, drop us a comment.

Now, does the WWW have any other birthdays we don't know about?

Tags: 16, birthday, internet, world wide web, WorldWideWeb, www

Filed under: Internet

Happy 15th birthday, WWW!

by Jordan Running Aug 6th 2006

On 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]

Tags: anniversary, birthday, history, Tim Berners-Lee, TimBerners-lee, timbernerslee, worldwideweb, www, yay

Filed under: Internet, News, Blogging, Web services

Technorati relaunched with new design/features

by Dan Lurie Jul 24th 2006

Ahh, Technorati, what would we do without you. You are the reason we obsessively tag all our posts, and you dutifully respond to our pings in mere minutes (under 5 according to Technorati Principal Engineer Kevin Marks) to crawl our data. On today, your third birthday, you provide us with even more excitement, in the form of a spiffy re-design and some interesting new features. The new design is more modular than in its previous state, complete with standard issue Web 2.0 graded header bars decked out in desaturated colors.

Front and center (well, top right anyway) is the new "Discover" feature. Discover allows users to view the most active posts within set categories including life, entertainment, tech and business. Users can also Discover by specifying tags or groups of tags. Keep in mind that the Discover feature is still under construction, and thus features may come and go before they reach a stable plateau. The new Discover functionality is similar to the popular site Techmeme.

Other differences from previous versions of the site include changes to the way favorites are displayed. Favorites now give more weight to a users favorites as opposed to simply which posts are most popular in the blogosphere.

Tags: 2.0, birthday, dave, discover, favorites, kevin, marks, redesign, relaunch, sifry, tags, techmeme, technorati, web

Filed under: Fun, Internet, Mozilla

Turn a friend on to Firefox, be immortalized

by Jordan Running Jul 17th 2006

World 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.

Tags: anniversary, birthday, firefox, firefoxday, holiday, mozilla, worldfirefoxday

Filed under: Fun, Hardware

Engadget has crazy fans who bake

by Jordan Running Mar 16th 2006

I 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.

Tags: alienware, anniversary, baking, birthday, cake, contest, engadget, food, gadgets, geek, winner

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