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Did you knowed it's the internet's 30th birthday today? Say something nice about it

>On April 30, 1993, the researchers at CERN launched the World Wide Web and it was the beginning of the stellar rise of the internet.

https://www.dw.com/en/happy-30th-birthday-world-wide-web/a-65462389

Bernd2023-04-30 19:35:29 · 3yNo. 268437 reply

be damned that day

Bernd2023-04-30 20:24:58 · 3yNo. 268440 reply

Hm? Internet is not just the WWW/HTML tho, by then, email, usenet, even IRC existed for quite a while already

Bernd2023-04-30 21:07:22 · 3yNo. 268454 reply

>>268440

It's about the general public being given access to the WWW and thus leading to the situation that we have today. Wasn't Usenet only accessible by some universities in its first years?

Bernd2023-04-30 21:20:14 · 3yNo. 268455 reply

>>268454

Usenet was designed to be publicly accessible but technical knowledge requirement and lack of infrastructure meant it wasn't really reachable to the masses.

Nonetheless e.g. furries have already organized over BBS early in the 80s, tho I think they only moved on to usenet in the 90s

https://en.wikifur.com/wiki/Tiger%27s_Den_BBS

they also ran what was probably the first netcomic since 1986

https://en.wikifur.com/wiki/T.H.E._Fox