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Shannon KayMe: Today has been the birthday of the World Wide Web. 34 years old today!Kid: The world is 34 years old?!<a href="https://bookstodon.com/tags/WorldWideWeb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WorldWideWeb</a> <a href="https://bookstodon.com/tags/WWW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WWW</a> <a href="https://bookstodon.com/tags/InternetHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#InternetHistory</a> <a href="https://bookstodon.com/tags/TheWeb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TheWeb</a> <a href="https://bookstodon.com/tags/KidsSay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#KidsSay</a>

ThomasInternet itself is older RT <a href="https://eupolicy.social/@stefan" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@stefan</a>: "On August 6, 1991 [34 years ago], the first website was introduced to the world. [It] contained information about the World Wide Web Project. It launched at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, CERN, where it was created by British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee."<a href="http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html</a>Happy birthday, web!Via <a href="https://www.npr.org/2021/08/06/1025554426/a-look-back-at-the-very-first-website-ever-launched-30-years-later" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.npr.org/2021/08/06/1025554426/a-look-back-at-the-very-first-website-ever-launched-30-years-later</a><a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/TheWeb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TheWeb</a> <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/internet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#internet</a> <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/WorldWideWeb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WorldWideWeb</a> <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/FirstWebsite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FirstWebsite</a> <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#history</a> <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OTD</a>

Stefan Bohacek"On August 6, 1991 [34 years ago], the first website was introduced to the world. [It] contained information about the World Wide Web Project. It launched at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, CERN, where it was created by British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee."<a href="http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html</a>Happy birthday, web!Via <a href="https://www.npr.org/2021/08/06/1025554426/a-look-back-at-the-very-first-website-ever-launched-30-years-later" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.npr.org/2021/08/06/1025554426/a-look-back-at-the-very-first-website-ever-launched-30-years-later</a><a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/TheWeb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TheWeb</a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/internet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#internet</a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/WorldWideWeb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WorldWideWeb</a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/FirstWebsite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FirstWebsite</a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#history</a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OTD</a>

Stefan BohacekCongratulations to all the <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/TinyAwards" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TinyAwards</a> nominees!<a href="https://tinyawards.net/vote/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://tinyawards.net/vote/</a><a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/TheWeb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TheWeb</a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/internet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#internet</a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/IndieWeb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IndieWeb</a>

botwiki.orgOh come on. "We are observing stealth crawling behavior from Perplexity, an AI-powered answer engine. Although Perplexity initially crawls from their declared user agent, when they are presented with a network block, they appear to obscure their crawling identity in an attempt to circumvent the website’s preferences."<a href="https://blog.cloudflare.com/perplexity-is-using-stealth-undeclared-crawlers-to-evade-website-no-crawl-directives/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://blog.cloudflare.com/perplexity-is-using-stealth-undeclared-crawlers-to-evade-website-no-crawl-directives/</a>Via <a href="https://techhub.social/@Techmeme/114971052570561612" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://techhub.social/@Techmeme/114971052570561612</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TheWeb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TheWeb</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/internet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#internet</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#technology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#news</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TechNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TechNews</a>

Stefan BohacekIn a January 1999 interview with The Guardian, Bowie tried to explain his approach to the internet as an artist."Interaction on the Web is a little like a mirror, like communicating with a manifestation of yourself. Because it is so chaotic, so decentralised, I find that using the Web becomes like communicating with a hardware version of me. It's not exactly a doppelgänger, but an alternative version of myself."<a href="https://cybercultural.com/p/online-identity-bowieworld-1999/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://cybercultural.com/p/online-identity-bowieworld-1999/</a><a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/internet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#internet</a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/TheWeb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TheWeb</a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/cyberculture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cyberculture</a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/OnlineIdentity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OnlineIdentity</a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/OnlineCommunities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OnlineCommunities</a>

Stefan BohacekThe annual celebration of HTML, HTML Day 2025 is coming up on August 2."On Saturday, August 2nd, 2025, we'll be gathering in places around the world to write and celebrate HTML."via <a href="https://xoxo.zone/@waxy/114921694060600175" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://xoxo.zone/@waxy/114921694060600175</a><a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/TheWeb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TheWeb</a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/internet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#internet</a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/IndieWeb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IndieWeb</a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/HTMLDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HTMLDay</a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/HTMLDay2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HTMLDay2025</a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/html" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#html</a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/PersonalWebsites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PersonalWebsites</a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/PoeticWeb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PoeticWeb</a>

Póg mo Joan 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️😷Em. Is the Web Foundation's website broken..? (It's giving 504 and 403 errors..) <a href="https://webfoundation.org/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://webfoundation.org/</a>🥴 <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/WebFoundation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WebFoundation</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/TheWeb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TheWeb</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/WWW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WWW</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/TimBernersLee" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TimBernersLee</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/RosemaryLeith" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RosemaryLeith</a>

David PeachHmmm. My WordPress Activitypub just decided to stop working. Then started working again. Not sure if this was a glitch with the plugin or just some network gremlins though.I really need to dig into the code of the activitypub stuff to get a good understanding of how it all works together.

Stefan Bohacek"This exercise got me thinking about the ways we attempt to be present and to feel the presence of others in online spaces. I often find myself turning to the Internet when I feel most alone, seeking ways to feel connected to others; to feel seen by others."<a href="https://sfpc.study/blog/the-playful-internet" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://sfpc.study/blog/the-playful-internet</a><a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/internet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#internet</a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/TheWeb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TheWeb</a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/PoeticWeb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PoeticWeb</a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/IndieWeb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IndieWeb</a>

David PeachI just followed a link to a post on the bluesky website. It’s literally how twitter was, pre-nazi, except with a slightly different logo. Y’all are gonna fall for it all again aren’t you.

Kostyn"I am not meeting my creative and technological potential on the web"- <a href="https://niagara.social/@k8" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@k8</a> <a href="https://niagara.social/tags/TheWeb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TheWeb</a> <a href="https://niagara.social/tags/Tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Tech</a> <a href="https://niagara.social/tags/Creativity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Creativity</a>

Stefan BohacekRemember those "best experienced with [browser name]" badges?"MTV's revamped World Wide Web site for MTV contains a heavy amount of original music content and a unique Web browser design. [...] Some of the site's best content, including a grossly appealing game with Beavis & Butt-head, is designed exclusively for Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser."<a href="https://cybercultural.com/p/browser-war-1990s/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://cybercultural.com/p/browser-war-1990s/</a><a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/internet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#internet</a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/TheWeb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TheWeb</a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/InternetHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#InternetHistory</a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#technology</a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/cyberculture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cyberculture</a>

Stefan Bohacek"The level of creativity and versatility on display on your average Geocities site is hard to understate. Most were a cross between amateur experiments and love letters to this or that piece of pop culture. They were plastered with recipes, vacation photos, esoteric images, and tidbits of slash fiction."<a href="https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/exploring-the-web-in-1995/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/exploring-the-web-in-1995/</a><a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/internet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#internet</a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/TheWeb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TheWeb</a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/geocities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#geocities</a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#technology</a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#history</a>

Stefan BohacekVery cool, you can find me in the Internet Phone Book under number 708!<a href="https://internetphonebook.net/#dial-a-site" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://internetphonebook.net/#dial-a-site</a><a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/internet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#internet</a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/TheWeb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TheWeb</a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/InternetPhoneBook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#InternetPhoneBook</a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/PersonalSites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PersonalSites</a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/indieweb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#indieweb</a>

Stefan Bohacek"In Mandarin Chinese, World Wide Web is commonly translated via a phono-semantic matching to wàn wéi wǎng (万维网), which satisfies www and literally means "10,000-dimensional net", a translation that reflects the design concept and proliferation of the World Wide Web."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web</a>via <a href="https://mastodon.social/@mcc/114605076806447333" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://mastodon.social/@mcc/114605076806447333</a><a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/internet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#internet</a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/TheWeb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TheWeb</a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/WorldWideWeb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WorldWideWeb</a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/chinese" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#chinese</a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#language</a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#linguistics</a>

Stefan Bohacek"We’re joined this evening on the Internet. What is an Internet? They’re getting a simul-ah…broadcast of the show tonight. Hello Internet people!"<a href="https://cybercultural.com/p/video-streaming-1997/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://cybercultural.com/p/video-streaming-1997/</a><a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/internet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#internet</a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/TheWeb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TheWeb</a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#technology</a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#history</a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/cyberculture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cyberculture</a>

Stefan Bohacek"In July 1997, N2K and Liquid Audio announced a way to sell digital singles online for 99 cents. For historical context, this was a couple of years before Napster came onto the scene and over five years before Apple launched the iTunes Store."<a href="https://cybercultural.com/p/digital-music-sales-1997/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://cybercultural.com/p/digital-music-sales-1997/</a><a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/music" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#music</a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/internet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#internet</a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/TheWeb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TheWeb</a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#history</a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/cyberculture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cyberculture</a>

Stefan BohacekIn his latest Cybercultural entry, <a href="https://mastodon.social/@ricmac" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@ricmac</a> looks at the state of the internet in 1996: portals, e-commerce, web design trends, online music, and the emergence of web apps.<a href="https://cybercultural.com/p/internet-1996/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://cybercultural.com/p/internet-1996/</a><a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/cyberculture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cyberculture</a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/internet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#internet</a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/TheWeb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TheWeb</a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#history</a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#technology</a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/TechHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TechHistory</a>

Stefan Bohacek"On 30 April 1993 CERN issued a public statement stating that the three components of Web software (the basic line-mode client, the basic server and the library of common code) were put in the Public Domain [...]"<a href="https://home.cern/science/computing/birth-web/licensing-web" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://home.cern/science/computing/birth-web/licensing-web</a><a href="https://cds.cern.ch/record/1164399/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://cds.cern.ch/record/1164399/</a>Full text: <a href="https://genius.com/Cern-statement-concerning-cern-w-3-software-release-into-public-domain-annotated" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://genius.com/Cern-statement-concerning-cern-w-3-software-release-into-public-domain-annotated</a><a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OTD</a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#history</a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/internet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#internet</a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/TheWeb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TheWeb</a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#tech</a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/computers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#computers</a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/PublicDomain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PublicDomain</a>

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