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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Happy 34th birthday to websites

info.cern.ch

The World Wide Web project

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Imagine making a website today that still works in 34 years. We have all let Sir Tim Berners-Lee down.

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Paul Watson 🌍 @paulmwatson.com · 06/08/2025

Yeah, posted this today bsky.app/profile/paul...

Paul Watson 🌍@paulmwatson.com

We've lost the plot.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

One of the other cool things about this website is that it contains instructions for how to download a browser so that you can see the website (which at this point is the only website)

Getting the WWW files
Read this if you have not yet got the WWW files you need, and you cannot NFS mount a directory on which they reside.

The source and binary of WWW project files are currently available (see copyright ) by anonymous FTP from node info.cern.ch. This node is currently 128.141.201.74 but THIS MAY CHANGE. The files are compressed tape archive files (.tar.Z). To get a file using anonymous FTP, use user name "anonymous", and your email address as a password:-
> ftp info.cern.ch
Enter user name: anonymous
Password: me@myhost.edu
ftp> cd /pub/www/src
ftp> binary
ftp> get WWWLineMode_vvv.tar.Z
ftp> quit
>

The file name will depend on the product you want. Here vvv is the version number of the software.

Once you have the compressed tar file, you must uncompress it and unwrap it.
uncompress WWWLineMode_vvv.tar.Z

This will make a rather larger file with the name without the ".Z". To unwrap it,
tar xvf WWWLineMode_vvv.tar

Now you should install the line mode browser , install the server , install Viola , etc.
Tim BL

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