The Beginning of the WWW (The Google History of the Internet)

(old post from my lost blog at ehcafe.com, Oct 2009)

EhCafe has posted a new item, 'The Beginning of the WWW (The Google History of
the Internet)'

Newsgroups: alt.hypertext From: timbl@info .cern.ch (Tim Berners-Lee) Date: 6
Aug 91 16:00:12 GMT Local: Tues, Aug 6 1991 9:00 am Subject: WorldWideWeb:
Summary  WorldWideWeb - Executive Summary The WWW project merges the
techniques of information retrieval and hypertext to    make an easy but
powerful global information system. [...]The WWW world consists of documents,
and links.  Indexes are special documents    which, rather [...]