I’m at a rather special session on the history of WWW and more generally the web. 13 years ago at WWW CERN 94 I got a T-shirt. I’ve never worn it till now – when we are celebrating the history of the WWW. A very telling quote:
“The good thing about digital media is that you can save everything. The bad thing about digital media is that you can lose everything.”
I’m conscious that much of what I have been involved in over 15 years has been lost. It’s not “mine” – it’s ours. Things like the first Internet Course – Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming Using C++ – run by Marcus Speh under the auspices of he Globewide Network Academy. It won a “best of the web” prize at CERN WWW 94 – but I suspect almost all of that is lost.
More history tomorrow – maybe I’ll donate the T-shirt