Here’s the first part of our CERN tour. This part is with Ben Segal, who was one of Tim Berners-Lee’s mentors. He talks about the first days of the World Wide Web (it was invented at CERN) and shows us the first Web server.
Oh, can you spot famous science fiction author Bruce Sterling in the video?
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April 2nd, 2008 at 8:23 am
Great interview.
What a great time that reminds me of, when the Web was first emerging. I found this clip the other day, which I had developed for the launch of WebFORCE in January of 1995. WebFORCE was the first turnkey web server — and the workstation flavor of it included WebMagic, the first WYSIWYG HTML editor. This clip is extremely dated now, but such is life: http://youtube.com/watch?v=sD2ku1a8N9U
April 2nd, 2008 at 10:30 am
Google video for archival purposes
It would have been even better to have included related segments from your brief interview with Berners-Lee as well as talking to some of the Interns who also worked on the Web
April 2nd, 2008 at 11:00 am
I wonder to what extent todays audience fails to appreciate both the power of HTML (in its original form) syntax as well as its simplicity compared to what we have today. Linking documents together so that they appeared as one complete whole was unheard of, and you only had to learn a dozen commands or less.
Today, people think they can only create a web page with the help of a tool, and the notion of linking a document, photo, or file from another machine is frowned upon rather than encouraged.
It is human nature I guess to go from simple concept, right past the sweet spot on onto something that is almost unmanageable. Human nature, in this case of course, helped along by organizations that had no intention of letting the Internet achieve its full potential. How much better it could have been had Microsoft (for one) been on board from the beginning.
April 4th, 2008 at 11:58 pm
Hey Scoble - I shot you an email a couple days back about something that’s being announced next week. I’d love to still talk to you about it if you have the opportunity to reply.
thanks!
Aaron
April 8th, 2008 at 12:21 pm
that’s very cool. Thanks for posting that video. :)
And I agree with macbeach above. I don’t think people today (who are in their early 20s say),really get what a revolution it was back then to hand code HTML and link diverse documents or photos together. Now it’s so complex and there are so many standards and ways of doing something that won’t be compatible with someone out there… not saying old school was the way it should have stayed, but still. :)
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