- From: Access Systems <accessys@smart.net>
- Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2004 09:02:18 -0400 (EDT)
- To: David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>
- Cc: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
On Sat, 17 Apr 2004, David Woolley wrote:
>
> > Back to the future, sorry but the web seemed to be more accessible in
> > 1980 than it is today...
>
> I thought that the web didn't start till about 1990 (and ceased to
> exist about 1995).
when I first logged onto what ever it was back in 1975 or so it had no
name (that I was ever aware of) and it was sort of self policed but it was
pretty much universally accessible to the 5 or 10 people with access to
the computers that were linked...it was about 1995 when the place went
insane with all the crazy mismatched forms and software....Gopher, heck
what about Kermit and Archie...?
Bob
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