The Cellar  

Go Back   The Cellar > Images > Image of the Day

Image of the Day Images that will blow your mind - every day. [Blog] [RSS] [XML]

Reply
 
Thread Tools Rate Thread Display Modes
Old 05-19-2009, 12:00 AM   #1
xoxoxoBruce
The future is unwritten
 
Join Date: Oct 2002
Posts: 71,105
May 19, 2009: First Server

This is it, the root of all evil... the reason your house is a mess, the dirty laundry piled high, and your car overdue for an oil change.
Sitting in a glass case in Switzerland, at CERN (Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire), the European Council for Nuclear Research, is the world's first web server.



Quote:
1990 was a momentous year in world events. In February, Nelson Mandela was freed after 27 years in prison. In April, the space shuttle Discovery carried the Hubble Space Telescope into orbit. And in October, Germany was reunified.
Then at the end of 1990, a revolution took place that changed the way we live today.

Berners-Lee created a browser-editor with the goal of developing a tool to make the Web a creative space to share and edit information and build a common hypertext. What should they call this new browser: The Mine of Information? The Information Mesh? When they settled on a name in May 1990, it was the WorldWideWeb.
After this humble beginning the scourge spread, slower than swine flu, but with a larger impact, by orders of magnitude.

Quote:
During 1991 servers appeared in other institutions in Europe and in December 1991, the first server outside the continent was installed in the US at SLAC (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center). By November 1992, there were 26 servers in the world, and by October 1993 the figure had increased to over 200 known web servers. In February 1993, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign released the first version of Mosaic, which was to make the Web available to people using PCs and Apple Macintoshes.

... and the rest is Web history.
Of course during this development, the Cellar was patiently waiting for them to get their shit together, just so we could welcome YOU!

link
__________________
The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.
xoxoxoBruce is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 05-19-2009, 04:42 AM   #2
spudcon
Beware of potatoes
 
Join Date: May 2007
Location: Upstate NY, USA
Posts: 2,078
Al Gore's name was Berners-Lee in 1990?
__________________
"I believe that being despised by the despicable is as good as being admired by the admirable."
spudcon is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 05-19-2009, 05:35 AM   #3
Griff
still says videotape
 
Join Date: Feb 2001
Posts: 26,813
He changed it, American voters were not ready for hyphenated names.
__________________
If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you.
- Louis D. Brandeis
Griff is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 05-19-2009, 05:41 AM   #4
ZenGum
Doctor Wtf
 
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Badelaide, Baustralia
Posts: 12,861
What's that object to the right of the keyboard, right behind the mouse? White, squarish thing, looks like it's got some kind of display on it.
__________________
Shut up and hug. MoreThanPretty, Nov 5, 2008.
Just because I'm nominally polite, does not make me a pussy. Sundae Girl.
ZenGum is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 05-19-2009, 06:20 AM   #5
capnhowdy
Blatantly Homosapien
 
Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 6,200
That's the box that housed the Cellar monkey and his typewriter.
__________________
Please type slowly. I can't read very fast............... and no holy water, please.
capnhowdy is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 05-19-2009, 08:06 AM   #6
BrianR
Cleverly disguised as a responsible adult
 
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Dallas, TX
Posts: 3,338
Capnhowdy: here
__________________
Never be afraid to tell the world who you are. -- Anonymous
BrianR is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 05-19-2009, 08:13 AM   #7
spudcon
Beware of potatoes
 
Join Date: May 2007
Location: Upstate NY, USA
Posts: 2,078
Wow! I forgot there were such things. Glad today's kids don't have to rely on such archaic things. I forgot, how did we play spider solitaire with books?
__________________
"I believe that being despised by the despicable is as good as being admired by the admirable."
spudcon is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 05-19-2009, 08:48 AM   #8
SteveDallas
Your Bartender
 
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Philly Burbs, PA
Posts: 7,651
Quote:
Originally Posted by ZenGum View Post
What's that object to the right of the keyboard, right behind the mouse? White, squarish thing, looks like it's got some kind of display on it.
It's a portable, high-resolution, low-power information storage and retrieval device.

It may take some getting used to.

I actually remember the day one of our professors called me up at work and said, "I read an article about something called the World Wide Web in the New York Times... do you know anything about it?"
SteveDallas is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 05-19-2009, 09:53 AM   #9
dar512
dar512 is now Pete Zicato
 
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Chicago suburb
Posts: 4,968
My 15 minutes of near fame. I worked at Spyglass in Champaign Illinois just after they licensed the Mosaic source from NCSA. It was an exciting time. The web was just starting to take off.

Then Spyglass licensed the source to Microsoft. Microsoft started giving their browser away, and the browser market disappeared.

Unless they've done a total rewrite on either of them, I have little bits of code in both IE and Outlook. (I also worked at CE software, who licensed the source for their calendar app to Microsoft. And the bottom dropped out of the calendar app market.)
__________________
"Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain."
-- Friedrich Schiller
dar512 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 05-19-2009, 10:26 AM   #10
SteveDallas
Your Bartender
 
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Philly Burbs, PA
Posts: 7,651
Ahh, Spyglass... a name from the past.

My 15 seconds involved getting berated by Marc Andreessen on Usenet, for posting the location of an alpha version of Mosaic for MacOS that was supposed to be private.
SteveDallas is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 05-19-2009, 10:29 AM   #11
dar512
dar512 is now Pete Zicato
 
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Chicago suburb
Posts: 4,968
Yeah. Some of the Spyglass people came from NCSA. They had stories to tell.
__________________
"Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain."
-- Friedrich Schiller
dar512 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 05-19-2009, 05:29 PM   #12
Gravdigr
The Un-Tuckian
 
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: South Central...KY that is
Posts: 39,517
Quote:
Originally Posted by dar512 View Post
Unless they've done a total rewrite on either of them, I have little bits of code in both IE and Outlook.
I know it's not all your fault, but, can we blame you?
__________________


These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA, EPA, FBI, DEA, CDC, or FDIC. These statements are not intended to diagnose, cause, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. If you feel you have been harmed/offended by, or, disagree with any of the above statements or images, please feel free to fuck right off.
Gravdigr is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 05-19-2009, 08:21 PM   #13
dar512
dar512 is now Pete Zicato
 
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Chicago suburb
Posts: 4,968
Quote:
Originally Posted by Gravdigr View Post
I know it's not all your fault, but, can we blame you?
All the code I wrote was creative, well-crafted, finely engineered, and bullet-proof. In short, yeah go ahead.
__________________
"Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain."
-- Friedrich Schiller
dar512 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 05-19-2009, 09:03 PM   #14
TheMercenary
“Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo”
 
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Savannah, Georgia
Posts: 21,393
Damm, who would have thought we would ever see a picture of Al Gore's desk.
__________________
Anyone but the this most fuked up President in History in 2012!
TheMercenary is offline   Reply With Quote
Reply


Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests)
 
Thread Tools
Display Modes Rate This Thread
Rate This Thread:

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off

Forum Jump

All times are GMT -5. The time now is 12:13 PM.


Powered by: vBulletin Version 3.8.1
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.