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- Lorddias, on 05/17/2009, -2/+196Old as the internet.. oh wait..
- InorganicMatter, on 05/17/2009, -4/+127For the confused: this isn't the first server on the internet, it's the first HTTP server (ala Apache). Up until this point, there was mostly Newsgroups, FTP, and BBS.
- borez, on 05/16/2009, -5/+121From little acorns grow great forests.
- Kaegro, on 05/17/2009, -4/+91This is how internet porn started. interesting.
- ShrikeDeCil, on 05/16/2009, -5/+64The shocking thing is how this is seen as a revolutionary step as opposed to an evolutionary step.
-At-the-time-, there was quite a bit of interesting development in all the other common protocols as well. FTP, Veronica, Gopher, spiders, searching, all were oozing in a general webwards direction. There were FTP programs that would display images and text "inline." Sorta. The missing bit was allowing a tiny bit of organization in. - jeddyftb, on 05/17/2009, -0/+58At work we have a little three drive array in the corner.
One of my coworkers put a sticker on it that says
"this is a server. DO NOT POWER DOWN."
I never got it until now. - DaNuKaSAN, on 05/17/2009, -6/+44What the...a server? Stupid interns...
*pulls plug*
OH SHI- - doshindude, on 05/17/2009, -1/+34Don't EVER reboot the web server!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8_Kfjo3VjU - inactive, on 05/17/2009, -3/+27NeXT was a great system.
- SniperZero, on 05/17/2009, -3/+27Worlds first original submission.....
/s - DelMonte, on 05/17/2009, -3/+25"The GUI was invented by Xerox PARC. Plain and simple."
No it's not that simple.
Graphical user interfaces were pioneered by many people, most notably Douglas Engelbart, who demonstrated a GUI in 1968.
Many others, such as Jeff Raskin and Bill Atkinson created more evolved GUI concepts after Engelbart, pre-dating Xerox Parc. And many of these pioneers that eventually worked at Xerox went on to work at Apple on the Lisa and the first Macintosh, bringing their own original ideas with them. - inkswamp, on 05/17/2009, -6/+25You're one of the few people I've seen on any forum saying this and I fully agree. I've been saying the same, usually in reaction to people giving credit to Tim Berners-Lee for the invention of the Web as if all the ideas were his own. Not to take away from his vision and his work, but it's like giving Steve Jobs credit for inventing the GUI. Both of them saw all these existing ideas around and had the drive to implement them in a way not previously done. For example, the concept of hypertext had been around and in full use for years before the Web, and various ideas about storing and moving data in a Web-like manner had been discussed in theory for decades. It was a missing, evolutionary move that had a big effect.
- WhoDoneIt, on 05/17/2009, -2/+20Your balls are only a few hours old?
- seltaeb4, on 05/17/2009, -2/+18NeXT survives today as Mac OS X.
- alexdemers, on 05/17/2009, -13/+291. Find an interesting WikiPedia article
2. Copy link image from WikiPedia page
3. Upload on image sharing service
4. Post to Digg
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6. Profit
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_server
Edit: Actually seems like a different picture. - inactive, on 05/17/2009, -4/+19Dear Tim Berners Lee,
Thanks for all the porn.
Yours,
Men. - ShyGuy91284, on 05/17/2009, -0/+15Good ol "Information Superhighway".... I'm glad that term faded away....
- KooperG, on 05/17/2009, -0/+13no it reads: "this machine is a server, do not power it down"
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d1 ... - wedges, on 05/17/2009, -2/+14looks like a big truck to me...
- mouthymadness, on 05/17/2009, -3/+15Serve and Protect.
- Perleeeze, on 05/17/2009, -0/+11I think you're wrong, in that all the other protocols were concerned with heavily structured and categorised content.
Tim Berners Lee developed a language which allowed organisation of freeform content in a way that humans can easily digest and manipulate.
Anyone who was around at the time using Archie, Gopher and the BBS (including Compuserve) knows that the Web was a true kick in the eye. It was revolutionary. Nothing that we had been using before came near it.
Berners Lee may not have been the first person to conceive of hypertext or linked multimedia content (e.g. hypercard) but he was the first person to do it properly with a formal markup language that could be rendered over the Internet graphically.
The definition of revolutionary is something that breaks from the status quo. And HTML and the Web certainly did that.
Maybe you are all too young to remember what life was like before the Web. I certainly am not.
The thing about hindsight is that you can always see where something evolved from. At the time, Berners Lee was the only person pulling together all the strands of thought into a workable solution. It required someone of his intellect to do it, so don't underestimate his contribution to the very different world in which you now live. - anthonywr, on 05/17/2009, -2/+12Is that the pixar lamp?
- R1100S, on 05/17/2009, -0/+9"You can't arrange by penis"
I LOL'd when the IT guy saw his desktop. - Philbert, on 05/17/2009, -0/+9Interesting. Reminds me of back in the early 90's, I specifically remember reading a magazine article about this new thing called the world wide web that was going to be really interesting (they didn't know how world changing it would be at the time). It explained how you could be reading an article stored on a totally different computer. In that article certain words would be underlined and if you clicked on them they could take you to another article which is stored on yet another computer. And all of these computers could be anywhere in the world!
Then later I remember when we first started to sort of see it in high school. The school library had a couple of computers hooked up (to CompuServe I think) and we could use them for research. I found it a pain to use and the information wasn't any better than the books in the library so I never actually used the internet until college in 1996. Funny how things played out. - christoast, on 05/17/2009, -2/+11we stand on the shoulders of giants.
- christoast, on 05/17/2009, -2/+11The 2 people that dugg you down are retarded.
- gemlarin, on 05/17/2009, -2/+10What you fail to realize is that he transcended platforms and organized data from multiple sources into a readily accessible universal protocol. This was far beyond the capabilities, and scope of GOPHER. GOPHER is completely non flexible, does not support image files, and relies completely on linear navigation. GOPHER also primarily relied on a central data server accessed through remote dumb terminals. You would not run a GOPHER server from your dorm room.
- mrBitch, on 05/17/2009, -1/+9@ DelMonte, RE: " ... many of these pioneers that eventually worked at Xerox went on to work at Apple on the Lisa and the first Macintosh, bringing their own original ideas with them."
+1 for a great mini-history of the development of the GUI. - magneteye, on 05/17/2009, -4/+11No confusion. It doesn't say "The World's First Server", It says "Web Server", which is in reference to the World Wide Web considered by many to have been started with the machine in question thanks to Tim Berners Lee.
- doctordbx, on 05/17/2009, -1/+8Correct.
- nose26, on 05/17/2009, -2/+9Isaac Newton said that I think.
- waydee, on 05/17/2009, -2/+9It's the computer that Tim Berners-Lee wrote the CERN HTTPd on which was the first http server, he also wrote a web browser called WorldWideWeb to view his creation.
- jazzmann04, on 05/17/2009, -0/+7While looking at this picture, I couldn't help thinking two things:
1) This is really cool, in a nostalgic sort of way.
2) Wow, I'm such a nerd for finding an old computer to be cool - willtrx, on 05/17/2009, -9/+16First!
- netneutrality, on 05/17/2009, -1/+7Wikipedia.
- mrBitch, on 05/17/2009, -0/+6RE: " ... For the confused: this isn't the first server on the internet "
The title says " World's first web server", what's confusing about that? - jer2eydevil88, on 05/17/2009, -5/+11It has aged well. (reference: see OS X)
- falser, on 05/17/2009, -2/+8I *guarantee* there are porn images stored somewhere on that computer.
- EricAnderton, on 05/17/2009, -1/+6Oh no, we had digitized porn long before WWW and HTTP. I'm sure FTP sites and Usenet had plenty at the time all this happened.
- Perleeeze, on 05/17/2009, -0/+4On a personal note, it was Tim's work that directly led to me setting up one of the UK's first Cybercafe's, followed in 1995 by a Web development company and now a successful enterprise software development company. For me, the Web has had a profound, revolutionary effect on my life.
- robdiggity, on 05/17/2009, -0/+4I know you said "ala Apache," but please do try to be careful. You imply a direct association between Apache and TBL/CERN. CERN's httpd ultimately provided more roots for IIS than anything else.
Apache was born of the freely available NCSA-httpd, shortly after Rob McCool left UIUC to work for Mosaic Communications Corporation, which later became Netscape Communication Corporation. - austin-dude, on 05/17/2009, -4/+8Yep - I still have a NeXT slab (pizza box). That box was soooo far ahead of it's time.
- pinguz, on 05/17/2009, -0/+4I wouldn't be surprised if there was porn already on that server, too
- AngelBunny, on 05/17/2009, -0/+4It is all steve jobs fault!
- DelMonte, on 05/17/2009, -0/+4@DeathRay2K
My goal is not to undermine Xerox Parc's contribution to the evolution of the GUI, but saying that "the GUI was invented by Xerox PARC, plain and simple." is simply not true.
What Engelbart demonstrated in 1968 was certainly much more than Hypertext, it did involve graphics and many different ways to interact with data using the mouse. It wasn't simply pages with hyperlinks, it was a GUI.
I highly suggest that you watch "the mother of all demos" by Doug Engelbart http://sloan.stanford.edu/mousesite/1968Demo.html
And actually, Jeff Raskin pioneered/invented other key GUI concepts at pretty much the same time.
Here's a quote from Raskin found at: http://mxmora.best.vwh.net/JefRaskin.html
"My thesis in Computer Science, published in 1967, argued that computers should be all-graphic, that we should eliminate character generators and create characters graphically and in various fonts, that what you see on the screen should be what you get, and that the human interface was more important than mere considerations of algorithmic efficiency and compactness. This was heretical in 1967, half a decade before PARC started. Many of the basic principles of the Mac were firmly entrenched in my psyche. By the way, the name of my thesis was the "Quick-Draw Graphics System", which became the name of (and part of the inspiration for) Atkinson's graphics package for the Mac." - dizam, on 05/18/2009, -0/+4They did OK: Acquired apple for -$400M
- ThreeDee912, on 05/18/2009, -0/+3Interestingly, NeXT was started by Steve Jobs, and parts of the OS still exist in OS X.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXT - brandospeed, on 05/17/2009, -0/+3you would think they could have gotten a better photographer for this photo op. TURN OFF THE FLASH FOR CHRISTSAKE!!
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