[HN Gopher] 33 years ago today I submitted a proposal for a syst...
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33 years ago today I submitted a proposal for a system called the
World Wide Web
Author : app4soft
Score : 56 points
Date : 2022-03-12 20:56 UTC (2 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (twitter.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (twitter.com)
| m00dy wrote:
| Lightning only hits once.
| robbedpeter wrote:
| Roy Sullivan would like a word with the manager...
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Sullivan
| tonymet wrote:
| i wish he would #standagainstgdprconsentdialogs
| yokoprime wrote:
| On the one hand Ukrainians with their exitential struggle
| against a foe which unprovoked has invaded their country and
| are killing civilians without scrutiny, on the other hand...
| consent dialogs. I can see the dilemma of choosing one or the
| other.
| bombcar wrote:
| The story so far: 33 years ago the World Wide Web was created.
| This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded
| as a bad move.
| morpheos137 wrote:
| Mainly because it was commercialized. Of course that was always
| the plan. To get people really mad and harvest their emotions.
| djbusby wrote:
| It's an OK joke. But, wow, the Web is pretty awesome.
| app4soft wrote:
| _Tim Berners-Lee_ tweeted today:
|
| > _33 years ago today, I submitted a proposal for a system called
| the World Wide Web._ [0]
|
| > _I 'd normally publish thoughts on the state of the web. But
| these are not normal times. Instead, Rosemary Leith & I ask you
| to join us to #StandWithUkraine however you can._
|
| > _https://webfoundation.org/2022/03/standing-with-ukraine-a-
| me..._
|
| This tweet also quotes _Rosemary Leith_ 's yesterday's tweet:
|
| > _To mark the web 's birthday this year, Tim Berners-Lee and I
| have donated to causes supporting women, children & journalists
| in Ukraine._[1]
|
| > _Join us, if you can, to contribute and #StandWithUkraine._
|
| > _https://webfoundation.org/2022/03/standing-with-ukraine-a-
| me..._
|
| [0]
| https://twitter.com/timberners_lee/status/150259484604495463...
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| [1] https://twitter.com/rosemaryleith/status/1502224095001382913
| skywal_l wrote:
| https://nitter.net/timberners_lee/status/1502594846044954630
| onetokeoverthe wrote:
| morpheos137 wrote:
| 23 years ago people in the West were allowed to view Kremlin.ru.
| Now they can't without difficulty.
|
| Apparently some information is too dangerous to be free.
|
| Maybe 13 years ago people interested in psychology or history or
| just interested could view North Korean propaganda on Youtube.
|
| Now it has been banned. Apparently we were worried about people
| in Topeka falling for Kim Jong Un.
|
| Meanwhile if you talk about Hunter Biden you'll be banned too.
|
| Ridiculous what the www has come to.
|
| Now in 2022 most people don't use it much. They mostly go to a
| fenced pasture like Reddit or Facebook where corporations or VCs
| hope to harvest their emotions for money and power.
| michaelmrose wrote:
| The page you mentioned is perfectly readable here in the US
| unlike much of the Propaganda on YouTube.
|
| Propaganda is effective else it wouldn't be of any use. People
| judge veracity in large part via ubiquity and truthiness not
| intelligent analysis therefore it is useful to block it as any
| other munitions heading your way. People can still get the
| other side of the argument by going directly to the source
| without organically encountering lies on YouTube and being
| influenced.
|
| Not blocking the Kremlin but blocking YouTube channels seems
| like a very balanced correct response.
|
| P.S. nobody cares about Hunter Biden
| OnlyMortal wrote:
| Though HTML was a DTD of SGML served up via a TCP socket. The
| only revolution was giving the SGML client app away.
| chrisseaton wrote:
| Simple as that, huh?
|
| Everything sounds simple if you describe it in a facetiously
| simple way.
|
| Michelangelo's David is just some bit of rock that someone's
| chipped away at.
| justinator wrote:
| Even simpler is the fact that all Michelangelo did was take
| away the bits of marble that _weren 't_ David.
| hirundo wrote:
| That is a floccinaucinihilipilification.
| tonymet wrote:
| don't forget the headers
| tpmx wrote:
| > The only revolution was giving the SGML client app away.
|
| No, the revolution was this combination of three relatively
| simple protocols (HTTP, URL, HTML) which together were
| incredibly powerful. The SGML crowd never came up with anything
| like that.
|
| Reducing this to "giving away the client app" misses the point
| of the above _so_ badly.
| em3rgent0rdr wrote:
| Indeed every great accomplishment can be reduced to a series of
| simple increments ontop of previous accomplishments. Brick-by-
| brick we all stand on solders of giants.
| chasing wrote:
| Sometimes that's all it takes, man. Although I suspect there
| was a little more to it. Regardless, we're not celebrating the
| effort -- many things take harder work to accomplish -- we're
| celebrating the effect, which has been world-changing.
| parksy wrote:
| Happy birthday, the web.
|
| We're still ironing out a few things and I hope we figure it all
| out some day.
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