On 5 August 2006 the www celebrated its 15th birthday.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/5243862.stm?ls


Does anyone have experience of the internet from the days before the web? How did it work in the very early days?

Well, in 1992 I was using the internet. I'm really not sure exactly what constitutes what, though. According to that timeline, HTML wasn't released until 1993, and so browsing as we know it wasn't established yet then. I was using the internet via ftp and unix terminals up until some time in 1995, when I started using Netscape for some things. That was really my first adventure on what I consider the "web" (a graphic user interface of the internet is really what I consider the web. Without that, it's just the internet, I think).

Ok, I read a little bit more... It looks as though I was mostly using the WWW in the early days, what with servers and all, but some of what I did was still pre-www technology, i.e. some of the communication directly from machine to machine. I think I'm still a little unclear what distinguishes what.