WWW Hypertext: This Date in History

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“On August 6, 1991, without fanfare, British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee published the first-ever website while working at CERN, the huge particle physics lab in Switzerland.”

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donbosco said:
Is that a Paul Jones nickname?
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No, it was mentioned briefly in the article and I hadn't thought of it for years. It was a client program for browsing internet resources (internet referring to ftp, telnet-based, directories, but not web/www since they weren't popular yet). People messing with the internet in the very early 90's might have used gopher before it quickly became obsolete due to the web/http/WWW.
 
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#OTD in 1945: U.S. B-29 #bomber Enola Gay drops the first #atomic bomb in war known as "Little Boy" on #Hiroshima, Japan, killing ~70,000 people immediately and thousands more later due to radiation exposure. #history #WW2 #WWII #EnolaGay #OTD Major Thomas W. Ferebee of Mocksville, NC was the bombardier. Enola Gay Bombadier Thomas Ferebee of Mocksville h/t @URDailyHistory
 
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