Re: source to MidasWWW from 1992

Thanks Dan. That’s actually quite awesome. And not just because it’s probably the oldest file on github. Unfortunately it doesn’t appear that github’s search API allows you to find out...


> On 14 Jun 2015, at 04:28, Dan Connolly <dckc@madmode.com> wrote:
> 
> I just ran across the source code to MidasWWW, evidently unpacked from the 1992 tarball. It looks like I tried to build it in March 2011.
> 
> I looked around and I can't find a copy of midaswww_1.0.tar.Z online, so I put up a modern shrine:
>   https://github.com/dckc/MidasWWW <https://github.com/dckc/MidasWWW>
>   https://github.com/dckc/MidasWWW/commit/f9cbf101e6f13d49a79fac756f9fbe1752dbf2e3 <https://github.com/dckc/MidasWWW/commit/f9cbf101e6f13d49a79fac756f9fbe1752dbf2e3>
> 
> I back-dated the commit and attributed it to the original author. I wonder how many files on github say "23 years ago" ;-)
> 
> hg rev 1aa258d4aea5
> 
> 
> For reference:
> 
> Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 19:03 PDT
> From: "Tony Johnson (415) 926 2278" <TONYJ@scs.slac.stanford.edu <mailto:TONYJ@scs.slac.stanford.edu>>
> Subject: MidasWWW - Motif based WWW browser now available.
> To: www-talk@nxoc01.cern.ch <mailto:www-talk@nxoc01.cern.ch>
> Message-Id: <6A3AA851802028DA@SCS.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU <mailto:6A3AA851802028DA@SCS.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU>>
> https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-talk/1992NovDec/0047.html <https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-talk/1992NovDec/0047.html>
> 
> 
> -- 
> Dan Connolly
> http://www.madmode.com/ <http://www.madmode.com/>