Clyde McPhatter of Hayti: 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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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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“Worn #onthisday in 1992 at the @Olympics in Barcelona, Spain, by the Lithuanian men's basketball team, who beat the former Soviet Union to win bronze. Their Grateful Dead-inspired uniforms paid tribute to the band that sponsored the talented but financially-strapped squad. #OTD” @WornOnThisDay O
 
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“Worn #onthisday in 1992 at the @Olympics in Barcelona, Spain, by the Lithuanian men's basketball team, who beat the former Soviet Union to win bronze. Their Grateful Dead-inspired uniforms paid tribute to the band that sponsored the talented but financially-strapped squad. #OTD” @WornOnThisDay O
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In 1988, four of the starters on the Soviet gold medal winning team were Lithuanians.

In 1992, the Lithuanians beat the “Unified Team” (Commonwealth of Independent States; the Soviets) to win the bronze medal.
 
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This date 56 years ago: August 8, 1969. On that day in London, freelance photographer Iain Macmillan shot the picture that became the album cover for "Abbey Road" (released late the following month). And in Los Angeles the same date, The Manson gang kicked off a horrific two-night murder spree.
 
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