[GOAL] Re: Happy 20th Birthday World Wide Web! You made open access possible

[Stevan Harnad]

Umm, the WWW was not born in 1994. It was born in 1990 and became part of
the Internet in 1991... (This year might be the 15th birthday of when Tim
B-L wrote the code, though...)


On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 6:01 PM, Omega Alpha | Open Access <
oa.openaccess at gmail.com> wrote:

> Happy 20th Birthday World Wide Web! You made open access possible
> <http://wp.me/p20y83-Kt>
>
> My concept of the world changed on a cold November evening in Brandon,
> Manitoba, 1994. I attended a public information meeting put on by a new
> company (I forget the name) that called itself an “Internet Service
> Provider” (ISP, for short). The company was offering access to the
> Internet, a global system of interconnected computer networks, upon which I
> would be able to send and receive electronic mail, and most intriguing,
> browse across and between pages of text and image documents (hyper)linked
> together into a “world wide web” of freely and readily accessible
> information. The sell was accomplished simply by providing a live
> demonstration. I was totally captivated.
>
> The next day, I drove down to the local computer store and bought a
> SupraFAXModem 14400 to connect my Apple Macintosh Classic computer via the
> telephone line to the Internet. I got a 15-year old kid in town to supply
> me with a 3.5″ floppy disk loaded with the necessary TCP/IP and PPP
> software, an email client, and a copy of the NCSA Mosaic web browser. After
> just a couple phone calls to that same 15-year old kid to help me
> troubleshoot some initial configuration problems, I was on! (Incidentally,
> that kid went to work for Apple Computer at the age of 17.)
>
> …
>
> Gary F. Daught
> Omega Alpha | Open Access
> http://oaopenaccess.wordpress.com/
> Advocate for open access academic publishing in religion and theology
> oa.openaccess at gmail dot com | @OAopenaccess
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