HishamJan 27, 2023
TIL the WWW originally had a logo, and nothing else is better at expressing the naive academic techno-optimism from the 1990s than a design that looks hand-coded in PostScript and that slogan at the top.
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@hisham_hm our @FontsInUse have a short entry on the WWW logo:https://fontsinuse.com/uses/40770/world-wide-web-logotype
World Wide Web logotype

The original World Wide Web logotype (and slogan) was designed by Robert Cailliau, using Optima. Cailliau comments on the naming and design in an article on Psychology Today: […] Tim [Berners-Lee] came up with “World-Wide Web”. I would have preferred somethin

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Jan 28, 2023 at 8:05amWeb