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2023-08-07 22:45:39 @ken_sugar@mastodon.social
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2023-08-07 22:22:33 Posting World Wide Web Consortium w3c@w3c.social
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0n 6 August On Tim Berners-Lee invited the public to try the Web
w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/1991

He later joked, when asked one of the things he never thought the internet would be used for: "Kittens"

https://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/1991/08/art-6487.txt
Reddit AMA from 2013, "totharescue" asked "What was one of the things you never though the internet would be used for, but has actually become one of the main reasons people use the Internet?" and timbl responded: "Kittens."
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2023-08-07 22:47:13 @ken_sugar@mastodon.social
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2023-08-06 22:18:05 Posting World Wide Web Consortium w3c@w3c.social
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On 6 August 1991, Tim Berners-Lee wrote to a newsgroup: "The WWW project merges the techniques of information retrieval and hypertext to make an easy but powerful global information system."
He noted "Try it" and the world was changed.
Thanks Tim!
w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/1991

https://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/1991/08/art-6487.txt
an image and text. on right an image of Tim Berners-lee, a man with dark hair and a slight smile in front of an older screen showing a page with a "WWW" logo in green. Text on left is "Try it" and "Sir Tim Berners-Lee introducing the Web to the world. 6 August 1991
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