Prompted by our time at CERN, Remy ponders why web browsers (quite quickly) diverged from the original vision of being read/write software.
This is a wonderful presentation by Kimberley at O’Reilly’s Fluent Conference, running through the history of the Line Mode Browser and the hack project we worked on at CERN to emulate it.
What a wonderful way to go online!
Brian writes up his experience working on the line-mode browser hack event at CERN.
From CERN to singularity - the digital pioneer and cofounder of the WWW on 20 years of webscapades.
I took a little time out of the hacking here at CERN to answer a few questions about the line-mode browser project.
Postel’s port numbers.
Delving into old-fashioned parsing rules.
Two days in geek paradise.
The importance of revisiting past decisions. Especially when it comes to the web.
2022 was once unimaginable to some web folks.