First WWW flyer
Posted on:I have what I think is the first A4 leaflet produced by Tim, that my wife brought back from Hypertext 91′ in San-Antonio Texas (a conf she attended as a Digital engineer working on their own hypertext of that time, called Memex, integrated in DecWindows).
It has on one side a variation of the “Web bus” drawing and on the other side the text from the usenet announce from Aug 91
I put a scan online
Thanks Daniel. I wonder if she recognised the importance of that piece of paper 😉
The proceedings of Hypertext ’91 appear to be online, but all the links are broken, unfortunately.
I saved it from trashness years ago as she was cleaning up old office boxes. It’s now on display in a protective transparent plastic folder in my office in Sophia.
Wonderful find, who could have imagined all of this when they saw that brochure!
Nice 🙂
I’ve been digging around /History/ these last few years, and have seen some of the source files up there. I’m not sure yet exactly what’s what; it would be good to catalogue things.
e.g. http://www.w3.org/History/1991/HTRejected.wn/ has EPS of that slide.
Also http://www.w3.org/History/1992/timbl-floppies/TimBerners-Lee_CERN/hype.tar.Z has some interesting things in it.
In general it’s hard for non-W3C team to poke around these dirs; the top level listing isn’t always available and robots.txt excludes crawlers. There are hacks like using URLs such as http://www.w3.org/History/1991-WWW-NeXT/*,access* to see file lists, but it’s not ideal. Perhaps a complete listing could be shared?
In the hype.tar.Z file, see ./hypertext/Conferences/HT91 folder for related fragments…