32.3152, Fun Fact: Early Websites

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LINGUIST List: Vol-32-3152. Wed Oct 06 2021. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 32.3152, Fun Fact: Early Websites

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Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2021 00:21:41
From: LINGUIST List [linguist at linguistlist.org]
Subject: Fun Fact: Early Websites

 Hi all! 

Nils here with another fun fact. Did you know that the Linguist List is over
30 years old? While our old website wasn’t created until about 1997, the first
post over the initial mailing list was sent in December, 1990, and because we
archive everything, you can still read it here (https://linguistlist.org/issues/1/1-0/)! 
This was before browsers were even available to the general public, let alone 
HTML, which is what we still use for web pages today. 

As a related fun fact, the very first website ever is still up too! It was
created by CERN and they have since recreated it. You can find it here.
http://info.cern.ch/

Websites obviously exploded in the 90s, and we quickly joined the fun around
1997. Of those, most of them have been shut down since, but we have remained
all this time! We're always making improvements, and we're still working on
our newest iteration of the website.

Of course, all of this is only possible due to the generosity of our readers.
Donations help us to pay for the servers we use, all the services we provide,
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Thank you,

Nils Hjortnaes



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