[ih] The web as wind and whirlwind? (was Re: History from 1960s to 2025)

[Yannis KOROVESIS/COROVESIS]

Jill Foster of Newcastle University, UK edited the following Joint IETF, 
RARE, CNI report about the same time 
  
  
  
  
  https://ftp.ripe.net/fyi/fyi25.html 
  
  
  
  
  Yannis Corovesis 
  
  NCSR Demokritos 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Daniele's message below did not go through to the list, so he asked me to 

  
  forward it. 
  
  We listed Gopher before WWW in our guide because at the time (early 1993) 

  
  we thought that it was more accessible to the academic and research 
  
  community. And it was much easier to set up a Gopher instance than it was 

  
  to create a Web site. 
  
  Regarding graphics on the Web, my recollection, FWIW, is that Marc 
  
  Andreessen was one of the main advocates of inline graphics, while Tim 
was 
  
  reluctant at first, fearing that they would slow down rendering too much. 

  
  
  
  
  Happy holidays, 
  
  David Sitman 
  
  
  
  
  -----Original Message----- 
  
  From: Daniele Bovio [mailto:Bovio at aol.com] 
  
  Sent: Sunday, December 21, 2025 9:13 AM 
  
  To: 'Brian E Carpenter' <brian.e.carpenter at gmail.com>; 'Barbara Denny' < 
  
  b_a_denny at yahoo.com> 
  
  Cc: 'internet-history-bounces at elists.isoc.org' < 
  
  internet-history-bounces at elists.isoc.org> 
  
  Subject: RE: [ih] The web as wind and whirlwind? (was Re: History from 
  
  1960s to 2025) 
  
  
  
  
  Hi Brian, 
  
  In 1993 the EARN team wrote and distributed the first Guide to Network 
  
  Resource Tools, which in 1994 became RFC1580: 
  
  
  
  
  https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1580 
  
  
  
  
  I think this document, however outdated, gives a good picture of the 
status 
  
  of the internet at that time ;-) 
  
  
  
  
  Cheers 
  
  
  
  
  Daniele Bovio 
  
  
  
  
  On Sat, Dec 20, 2025 at 10:28 PM Brian E Carpenter via Internet-history < 

  
  internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote: 
  
  
  
  
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