Correction: *25th* anniversary of when Tim B-L wrote the WWW code...
On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 6:01 PM, Omega Alpha | Open Access < oa.openacc...@gmail.com> wrote: > Happy 20th Birthday World Wide Web! You made open access possible > <http://wp.me/p20y83-Kt> > > My concept of the world changed on a cold November evening in Brandon, > Manitoba, 1994. I attended a public information meeting put on by a new > company (I forget the name) that called itself an “Internet Service > Provider” (ISP, for short). The company was offering access to the > Internet, a global system of interconnected computer networks, upon which I > would be able to send and receive electronic mail, and most intriguing, > browse across and between pages of text and image documents (hyper)linked > together into a “world wide web” of freely and readily accessible > information. The sell was accomplished simply by providing a live > demonstration. I was totally captivated. > > The next day, I drove down to the local computer store and bought a > SupraFAXModem 14400 to connect my Apple Macintosh Classic computer via the > telephone line to the Internet. I got a 15-year old kid in town to supply > me with a 3.5″ floppy disk loaded with the necessary TCP/IP and PPP > software, an email client, and a copy of the NCSA Mosaic web browser. After > just a couple phone calls to that same 15-year old kid to help me > troubleshoot some initial configuration problems, I was on! (Incidentally, > that kid went to work for Apple Computer at the age of 17.) > > … > > Gary F. Daught > Omega Alpha | Open Access > http://oaopenaccess.wordpress.com/ > Advocate for open access academic publishing in religion and theology > oa.openaccess at gmail dot com | @OAopenaccess > _______________________________________________ > GOAL mailing list > GOAL@eprints.org > http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal >
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