Guardian stories today about 40 years of the Internet, part of it being a list of firsts:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/oct/23/internet-history
Apparently Wikipedia got going in 2004? I could have sworn it was earlier ... Where do they research these things?
Charles
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 09:25:41AM +0100, Charles Matthews wrote:
Guardian stories today about 40 years of the Internet, part of it being a list of firsts:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/oct/23/internet-history
Apparently Wikipedia got going in 2004? I could have sworn it was earlier ... Where do they research these things?
Maybe that's the year Wikipedia got a reasonable number of articles and they knew it was going to stick around?
Isabell Long wrote:
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 09:25:41AM +0100, Charles Matthews wrote:
Guardian stories today about 40 years of the Internet, part of it being a list of firsts:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/oct/23/internet-history
Apparently Wikipedia got going in 2004? I could have sworn it was earlier ... Where do they research these things?
Maybe that's the year Wikipedia got a reasonable number of articles and they knew it was going to stick around?
Charitable. A visit to http://nostalgia.wikipedia.org would also shoot down the assertion that the early articles are lost and the early pages didn't maintain a page history.
Charles
2009/10/23 Charles Matthews charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com:
Charitable. A visit to http://nostalgia.wikipedia.org would also shoot down the assertion that the early articles are lost and the early pages didn't maintain a page history.
Charles
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:UuU suggests we have lost some stuff.
Charles Matthews wrote:
Guardian stories today about 40 years of the Internet, part of it being a list of firsts:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/oct/23/internet-history
Apparently Wikipedia got going in 2004? I could have sworn it was earlier ... Where do they research these things?
Charles
Certainly not wikipedia...
At least they credit Ward Cunningham. On the issue of Internet Cafés they perpetrate the canard that that Cyberia in London was in some sense the first one, when in fact it was inspired by the Finnish CompuCafe.
Never mind the way earlier implementations mentioned in [[Internet Café]].
Yours,
Jussi-Ville Heiskanen (proud owner of CompuCafes beer robot value cards numbers 45 and 90)
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 1:25 AM, Charles Matthews charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com wrote:
Guardian stories today about 40 years of the Internet, part of it being a list of firsts:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/oct/23/internet-history
Apparently Wikipedia got going in 2004? I could have sworn it was earlier ... Where do they research these things?
Charles
Well, not on Wikipedia, clearly... [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia Day]] :)
-- phoebe
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 9:25 AM, Charles Matthews charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com wrote:
Guardian stories today about 40 years of the Internet, part of it being a list of firsts:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/oct/23/internet-history
Apparently Wikipedia got going in 2004? I could have sworn it was earlier ... Where do they research these things?
What do you expect from a paper that has typos like the following?
"Little over a year later [...] had filled the gaping whole in the internet market for a video sharing facility."
Carcharoth
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 04:14:25PM +0100, Carcharoth wrote:
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 9:25 AM, Charles Matthews charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com wrote:
Guardian stories today about 40 years of the Internet, part of it being a list of firsts:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/oct/23/internet-history
Apparently Wikipedia got going in 2004? I could have sworn it was earlier ... Where do they research these things?
What do you expect from a paper that has typos like the following?
"Little over a year later [...] had filled the gaping whole in the internet market for a video sharing facility."
Haha well spotted, I didn't notice that! Oh dear, that's not good for the Guardian!