[ih] John McCrea in Medium

[Brian E Carpenter]

On 30/11/2015 06:49, Joly MacFie wrote:
> Couple of good yarns about the early days of the Web
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> https://medium.com/@johnmccrea/the-web-s-very-first-industry-event-535ceb52117d

"Though it had been preceded by a decidedly academic First International WWW Conference (with fewer than 400 participants) some
six months earlier at CERN,..."

http://www94.web.cern.ch/WWW94/

Missed that one. After all, HTTP was only an application and we had the CERN
network to run. I believe we supported some live streaming over the MBONE.

iirc, there was a strict attendance limit for CERN staff because of the size
of CERN's main auditorium. But even if it was "decidedly academic", it did
have commercial support (DEC, Sun, SCO).

   Brian

> https://medium.com/@johnmccrea/20-years-ago-the-early-web-product-line-that-almost-wasn-t-47bb35cee909
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