"Steve was a champion of usable technology - even sexy technology. Intuitive on the outside and extensible and cool engineering on the inside. The geeks among us need to be at the same time deeply insistent technically on beautiful, clean, extensible design inside, and utterly impatient as naive end users about the outside."

12.11.1990

http://twitter.com/adactio/statuses/20479033986 : "Reading emails from nineteen years ago today. http://tinyurl.com/3xhsh54"

http://twitter.com/adactio/statuses/20472111722 : "Well, I'll be! @timberners_lee proposed HTML5's outline algorithm for sections and headings 19 years ago. "

http://twitter.com/adactio/statuses/20470534348 : "The earliest document ever published on the web is *almost* valid HTML5"

Lots of food for thought here ...

"Ideas around the formation of a web first began to gain traction when the desktop PC landed in the late 1980s, but it was Berners-Lee who focused on the notion of using the internet to share documents, according to Wendy Hall, professor of computer science at Southampton University, and founding director of the Web Science Research Initiative. "Tim pulled together ideas of a markup language, getting files on the internet and hypertext," she explained. "The things that made it work were open standards and protocols so anyone could set up their own web server and HTML documents, the fact that it was completely distributed and scalable, and that it worked over the network.""

"Twenty years ago this month, something happened at CERN that would change the world forever: Tim Berners-Lee handed a document to his supervisor Mike Sendall entitled "Information Management : a Proposal". "Vague, but exciting" is how Mike described it, and he gave Tim the nod to take his proposal forward. The following year, the World Wide Web was born. This week, it's a pleasure and an honour for us to welcome the Web's inventor back to CERN to mark this special anniversary at the place the Web was born." + http://www.webfoundation.org/2009/03/post-4.html, http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/happy_20th_birthday_world_wide_web.php, http://www.broom.org/epic/ols-master.html

"This document assembles summaries of a number of other documents, available on the web [see below], concerning the "secret history" of hypertext -- the basis for what is now the World Wide Web."

"Reaching back to the mid-60s and ARPANET, Ethan makes a propulsive case for the foundational role of communications between people -- email, chat, MUDs, MySpace, more -- in the development of the Net." 1979, 1982. 3165!

"Public Domain document of 30 April 1993". See http://press.web.cern.ch/press/PressReleases/Releases2003/PR04.03EWeb10Years.html

"Exactly 15 years ago the directors at the lab where the web was first developed signed a document which said the technology could be used by anyone free of charge. ... BBC News talks to some of the leading figures in the web community about their hopes"

"The website of the world's first-ever web server"

"A screen shot taken from a NeXT computer running Tim Berners-Lee's original WorldWideWeb browser"

"Web science, therefore, must be inherently interdisciplinary; its goal is to both understand the growth of the Web & to create approaches that allow new powerful & more beneficial patterns to occur." Access via http://www.webscience.org/publications/.

"brings together academics, scientists, sociologists, entrepreneurs & decision makers … to create the first multidisciplinary research body to examine the World Wide Web & offer the practical solutions needed to help guide its future use & design."

"The paper book contains a glossary. This is a hypertext version with links to supporting and related material. (@ indicates missing link). Rather than give a long list of URIs in the book, I just give you this page online."

"from 1945 to 1995" + links

"Supplementary material … This book is written to address the questions most people ask - From "What were you thinking when you invented it?" through "So what do you think of it now?" to "Where is this all going to take us?", this is the story"

"this file "archie.html" was the first HTML I ever wrote; the file date is 12 Nov 1991. As far as I know, it's the oldest HTML file on the net."

"the Observer's Net specialist charts the web's remarkable early life and we tell the story of the 15 most influential websites to date"

"Whether Hyper-G has a chance to make an impact in the decentralized and frankly anarchic environment of the Internet remains to be seen. But it's also possible that it could supersede the Web and we users won't even notice."

"Paul Lindner, who’s been with Six Apart for years, working on infrastructure for our blogging services … was one of Gopher’s creators". Great piece: background, history, reflections, assessments …

"One key date is 6 August 1991 - the day on which links to the fledgling computer code for the www were put on the alt.hypertext discussion group so others could download it and play with it. On that day the web went world wide."

"Documentation of the Early Web at SLAC (1991-1994)"

"This is a list of some of those who have contributed to the World Wide Web project beginning with its creation at CERN"