What is the oldest known webpage?

Post by **Sades** » Mon Dec 16, 2002 10:19 am

Just one of those random thingies that plague the mind after two AM...

Anyone know? It'd be amusing if it were some random piece of flotsam... 'Jake was here' or somesuch...

The Green Knight · Post by **The Green Knight** » Mon Dec 16, 2002 11:23 am

It's more of a question of "What is the oldest surviving webpage" given how they come and go so much.

Here's one that dates back to 1993

http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~pringle/silent/

Ultimate Weapon · Post by **Ultimate Weapon** » Mon Dec 16, 2002 12:45 pm

I'll take a guess and say something the Military had from the Seventies, some classified webpage.

Cliffjumper · Post by **Cliffjumper** » Mon Dec 16, 2002 4:04 pm

Iggy Drouge's page has to be in there somewhere...

Starscreamsghost · Post by **Starscreamsghost** » Mon Dec 16, 2002 4:09 pm

Porn. The smart money's on porn.

Cliffjumper · Post by **Cliffjumper** » Mon Dec 16, 2002 4:10 pm

What, ASCII porn or something? ^_^

Starscreamsghost · Post by **Starscreamsghost** » Mon Dec 16, 2002 4:12 pm

Look, if 0's and 1's can't get you hot and bothered, that's your problem...

Claypool · Post by **Claypool** » Mon Dec 16, 2002 5:07 pm

the oldest webage is from the like late 70's

Halfshell · Post by **Halfshell** » Mon Dec 16, 2002 6:07 pm

Originally posted by Starscreamsghost
Look, if 0's and 1's can't get you hot and bothered, that's your problem...

He said ASCII, not binary, you schmuck.

dai-atlas2000 · Post by **dai-atlas2000** » Mon Dec 16, 2002 6:15 pm

The internet was developed in the 1960s by scientists and the government - so the earliest forms of "webpages" probably date to there?

The Green Knight · Post by **The Green Knight** » Mon Dec 16, 2002 6:57 pm

Originally posted by dai-atlas2000
The internet was developed in the 1960s by scientists and the government - so the earliest forms of "webpages" probably date to there?

As I recall, the rise of the World-Wide-Web didn't happen until the early ninties. Up until then, it was just stuff like email, gopher, and Usenet.

Computron · Post by **Computron** » Mon Dec 16, 2002 11:48 pm

Originally posted by dai-atlas2000
The internet was developed in the 1960s by scientists and the government - so the earliest forms of "webpages" probably date to there?

Actually the web was originally designed by universities to allow them to share research material and other academic stuff. The military mearly hijacked it. This can be seen by the fact the early tags in HTML 1 were stuff like bold text and stuff used in formatting a scientific report

As such it would probably be some research journal

StoneCold Skywarp · Post by **StoneCold Skywarp** » Tue Dec 17, 2002 12:00 am

ahha!!

I must find out who created HTML ... then I can kill their siblings...

They could've made it easier to code...and less painful

Damn, I hate websites...

The Green Knight · Post by **The Green Knight** » Tue Dec 17, 2002 8:48 am

Originally posted by StoneCold Skywarp
Damn, I hate websites...

You wouldn't be interest in passing the Boss Monkey Hat over here then, would you?

Post by **Sades** » Wed Dec 18, 2002 3:53 am

Originally posted by StoneCold Skywarp
ahha!!

I must find out who created HTML ... then I can kill their siblings...

Now, that wouldn't be very festive, would it?

Here's an interesting little page I managed to dig up, if anyone else was interested and didn't know all this already...

http://members.magnet.at/dmayr/history.htm

Haven't read it all yet myself, but thought I would share. Warpers, I think they have the name of the guy who created HTML on there...

Post by **Hound** » Wed Dec 18, 2002 4:00 am

Originally posted by Brendocon
He said ASCII, not binary, you schmuck.

BWAH-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA!!!!