May 24, 2013

Digital Archaeology - the search for the first web page[Purp]
— Open Blogger

It, or something close to it, is hidden on an old Next computer, but the drive is password protected and nobody remembers the password.

...Thankfully one of the people he showed it to while in the US for the Hypertext 91 conference kept a copy. This was largely because, said Mr Noyes, he had one of the same types of machine, a Next computer, that Sir Tim used for the demo...

How much do you want to bet its pron or some cat pictures?

The saying the internet never forgets is not really accurate. Shit goes completely missing constantly...particularly on vendor support sites after mergers. The archive.org effort isn't snap shotting everything either.

Posted by: Open Blogger at 05:12 PM | Comments (19)
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1 I remember a story of one of the very first GIF's sent over the internet.  I think it was a pic of a Euro Playboy model.

Posted by: EC at May 24, 2013 05:16 PM (doBIb)

2 kitteh pr0n?

Posted by: fluffy at May 24, 2013 05:16 PM (hqo9J)

3 I actually remember a time when the Internet was too pure to be used for commerce. F*ck that. I put a page up with all sorts of info and prices. I'd like to think I was the first Internet whore, but I'm sure I wasn't.

Posted by: Regular Moron [/i] at May 24, 2013 05:17 PM (U2UQk)

4 I remember my first intercourse with the Ladies of the Internet. Oh, Captain Kathryn Janeway, I'm going to get in your warp drive...

Posted by: Moobs at May 24, 2013 05:20 PM (rCS6C)

5 This post's time was 9:14 and it was on top of the Memorial Day post. Now it's 9:12 and it's below. Anyone seen any suspicious neutrinos hanging about?

Posted by: Waterhouse at May 24, 2013 05:21 PM (FuGih)

6 Thanks for The Kinks video Open Blogger

Posted by: Misanthropic humanitarian at May 24, 2013 05:30 PM (HVff2)

7 The password is "xlc-or".  I'm super serial!

Posted by: Al Gore: Manbearpig Hunter, Internet Inventor at May 24, 2013 05:35 PM (7xeJQ)

8 Did they look for a sticky note on the side of the CPU with the password 'cause that's where all my users keep theirs.

Posted by: Zombie John Gotti at May 24, 2013 05:51 PM (1hekh)

9 Chew Tobacca, Chew tobacca, Chew Tobacca-SPIT

Posted by: Ratts Alley at May 24, 2013 05:54 PM (UzPwV)

10 5 Anyone seen any suspicious neutrinos hanging about?

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Pretty sure I saw some tomorrow.

Posted by: Largely Irrelevant Assault Citizen Anachronda at May 24, 2013 06:03 PM (U82Km)

11 "Shit goes completely missing constantly...particularly on vendor support sites after mergers."

Amen to that.

I have a quarterly checklist for various maintenance stuff that I need to remember.

One of those items is to check vendor Web sites and download fresh archival copies of documentation, firmware and what have you from the support section.

This has saved my sorry ass on several occasions.

Posted by: torquewrench at May 24, 2013 06:05 PM (gqT4g)

12 "How much do you want to bet its pron or some cat pictures?"

If Mr. Noyes had a copy of an early Tim Berners-Lee webpage, there's a good likelyhood it was purely text; no cat pics or pron. Early web browsers were mostly text only, (i.e., Lynx - from 1992, and still available today.)

Also, remember Berners-Lee worked at CERN when developed HTTP and a web browser.

Posted by: jbarntt at May 24, 2013 06:10 PM (UNFot)

13 Lost password? Hah- that's easy! Just enter your email address and set up a new one. Freaking noobs..... But first, they should try "password" for the password. Works for my dad.

Posted by: Bill H at May 24, 2013 06:50 PM (3sZO1)

14 Dancing baby was where it was at.

Posted by: HoboJerky, Hash Hunter at May 24, 2013 07:25 PM (9VP5U)

15

I wonder what the first web page was...

 

The earliest one I remember, was the America Online web page...and it belonged to H and R Block back then, iirc.

 

And yes. Get off my lawn.

 

Posted by: wheatie at May 24, 2013 07:55 PM (L35yH)

16 NeXT was the best thing in the history of history. Thankfully, it has lived on in Mac OS X.

Posted by: Sound of 1000 Muppets Farting at May 24, 2013 08:17 PM (CcIvJ)

17 The first images I saw using Mosaic were from the EROS datacenter because Stu Durocher from there showed us how to install and used the tool.

Posted by: Larry Sheldon at May 24, 2013 10:45 PM (tRx5R)

18 Chillun. I've been online since 1980. C-serve, Delphi, Oracle days. BBS's....
Software on cassettes.

Posted by: backhoe at May 25, 2013 03:06 AM (ULH4o)

19

It, or something close to it, is hidden on an old Next computer, but the drive is password protected...

Pull the data off it.

 

PW protection will not prevent it from being read.

Posted by: Gmac- Pondering the impending implosion at May 25, 2013 07:25 AM (IanLz)

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