July 5th, 2004

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The Internet’s Cretaceous Period

For reasons which may become apparent soon, I’m wading through some of my digital archives from the early nineties. Among a great deal of bad writing, I discovered two early documents about the Internet that I’d saved. Fortunately, there are other copies available, so I won’t have to paste them into this entry. They are:

  • The World Wide Web Index, v1.1, Saturday, June 9, ’94, compiled by Jean-Paul Chia from Perth, Australia. The whole index takes up 19 pages in MS Word, and that’s with very generous line breaks. Sadly, I suspect most of the links in ‘UFO, Alien and Space Related’ are broken.
  • Zen and the Art of the Internet, A Beginner’s Guide to the Internet, First Edition, January 1992. It discusses something called “electronic mail”, as well as good old Telnet.

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Jean-Paul Marc Chia
June 27th, 2006
6:15 am

Was it so wrong that a list was maintained and regularly released, based purely on submissions?

The unreleased Web, Gopher and Finger service address database rivalled David & Jerry’s HTTP list.

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