23 years ago today: The world is informed of a new "WorldWideWeb"
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On 6 August 1991, Berners-Lee published a short summary of the World Wide Web project on the newsgroup alt.hypertext. This date also marked the debut of the Web as a publicly available service on the Internet, although new users only access it after August 23. For this reason this is considered the internaut's day. Several newsmedia have reported that the first photo on the Web was published by Berners-Lee in 1992, an image of the CERN house band Les Horribles Cernettes taken by Silvano de Gennaro; Gennaro has disclaimed this story, writing that media were "totally distorting our words for the sake of cheap sensationalism."
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Seems like yesterday that I would come home and read a book or simply watch TV.
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I graduated a couple of years later and I remember our school getting hooked up to the internet in '91 or early '92 (we were one of the most technology integrated schools in my province at the time) and thinking only computer nerds cared about THAT. LOL, I was online by '95 (had a semi-computer literate boyfriend) and was immediately hooked. I was by far the first in my 'inner circle' of family and friends to get an email.
I love to tell my teens about the days before the 'net. They look at me in abject horror. "Oh, you must've been so BORED all of the time!" I was. It's why I was able to participate in DU's famous 'did you read the encyclopedia for fun' thread. 
1995, on Guam, who was 'addicted' to it. I felt so sorry for him; that's all he did.
