World Wide Web Officially Launched Aug 6 1991 12PM GMT

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If you want the 70's in the noughties then it's Modelux, but how about a retro 1991 email, summarising a little project, called, um the world wide web. As Tim Berners-Lee says in his email, um, "Mail me with any queries." hehe

Path: gmdzi!unido!mcsun!cernvax!info
From: timbl@info .cern.ch (Tim Berners-Lee)
Newsgroups: alt.hypertext
Subject: WorldWideWeb: Summary
Keywords: heterogeneous hypertext, web, source, protocol, index, information retrieval
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Date: 6 Aug 91 16:00:12 GMT
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In article <6...@cernvax.cern.ch> I promised to post a short summary of the WorldWideWeb project. Mail me with any queries.

WorldWideWeb - Executive Summary

The WWW project merges the techniques of information retrieval and hypertext to make an easy but powerful global information system.

The project started with the philosophy that much academic information should be freely available to anyone. It aims to allow information sharing within internationally dispersed teams, and the dissemination of information by support groups.

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