<div dir="ltr">Correction: <u>25th</u> anniversary of when Tim B-L wrote the WWW code...</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 6:01 PM, Omega Alpha | Open Access <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:oa.openaccess@gmail.com" target="_blank">oa.openaccess@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Happy 20th Birthday World Wide Web! You made open access possible<br>
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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.<br>
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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.)<br>
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Gary F. Daught<br>
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