Tim Bray on the early Web's milestones

Cory Doctorow 9:00 am Wed Mar 12, 2014

It's the Web's 25th birthday and Tim Bray, inventor of XML and Web pioneer, has a great remembrance of the milestones of the early Web:

Back in the earliest days, Playboy.com went live; the picture is from December 20, 1996. It’s not that well-known that certain Netscape people reached out to Playboy, convinced them to do this Web thing, and helped them build the site. At one point, their servers were in the same room with pieces of Netscape.com and Yahoo.com; I was in that room and saw them. The historic linkage between the Web and fleshtone-soaked JPEGs is unsubtle; it’s possible that right here is where it started. ¶

The Web is 25

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