Re: Why are the Ws green?

This was my original message. Link to archive.org explanation of Robert C's green W. (I accidentally submitted a No answer to the Listserv message confirmation script and it didn't get posted.)

Robert Cailliau was a synaesthete:

http://web.archive.org/web/19970122180808/http://www.cern.ch/CERN/People/Ro= b ert/PersonalData.html

"And now wait for it folks: you have all seen the World-Wide Web logo of three superimposed "W"s. Why are they green? Because I see all 'W's as green... It would look horrible to me if they were any other colour. So, it's not because it is a "green" technology, although I also like that."

Noreen

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-----Original message-----
From: Operations at IA Institute <operations@iainstitute.org>
To: David Kendal <me@dpk.io>, Web History Community Group <public-webhistory@w3.org>
Sent: Thu, May 23, 2013 11:37:56 GMT+00:00
Subject: Re: Why are the Ws green?

Sorry, "is" a synesthete. He's not as old as I assumed he was.  Oops!


On 5/22/13 4:06 PM, "David Kendal" <me@dpk.io> wrote:

> On the Web homepage now mirrored at
> <http://w3.infologie.co/www/TheProject.html> there is a link, "why the W's are
> green", pointing to
> <http://www.cern.ch/CERN/People/Robert/PersonalData.html#GreenWs>, which is
> now offline. Presumably it explains the colour choice in the Web project's
> logo. (<http://w3.infologie.co/www/Icons/WWW/WWWlogo.gif>)
> 
> Unfortunately the link is now broken, and I can't find a copy of the document
> it may once have pointed to in CERN's AFS.
> 
> So: Why *are* the Ws green? Does anyone know where this document might be
> found?
> 
> ‹ dpk.