Annbass
I am tickled to see this bit of web trivia listed in @TheSeattleTimes “Today in History”. I represented Boeing to the #WorldWideWebConsortium (#W3C) for years. That international Web standards org was made possible because @timbl and @CERN generously gave the initial web code to the world for free — apparently on April 30, 1993. Many of my friends here are from that connection. I am deeply grateful for that experience. And of course that we have the Web!
May 1 at 1:55amMetatext
Show threadMatteꙮ ItaliaMay 1
@Annbass @TheSeattleTimes @timbl I wonder what they meant here as "released its source code" ("it" being "the World Wide Web")... The sources of the first web server? Of the first browser (Mosaic I think)? The specs for HTTP and HTML? Something else?
Show threadDaniel DARDAILLERMay 2
@cvtsi2sd @Annbass @TheSeattleTimes @timbl - It's all that (not Mosaic which was a separate implemention) but most importantly the http and HTML specifications, without due royalties which was the case for all the other hypertext systems at that time.