Declaration of the

Rights of Netizens
------------------------------------------

DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF THE NET and

NETIZENS

In recognition that the net represents a revolution in human

communications that was built by a cooperative non-

commercial

process, the following Declaration of the Rights of the Netizen

is presented for Netizen comment.

As Netizens are those who take responsibility and care for the

Net, the following are proposed to be their rights:

o Universal access at no
or low cost
o Freedom of Electronic
Expression to promote
the exchange of
knowledge without fear
of reprisal
o Uncensored
Expression
o Access to Broad
Distribution
o Universal and Equal
access to knowledge
and information
o Consideration of one's
ideas on their merits
o No limitation to
access to read, to post
and to otherwise
contribute
o Equal quality of
connection
o Equal time of
connection
o No Official
Spokesperson
o Uphold the public
grassroots purpose and
participation
o Volunteer
Contribution - no
personal profit from the
contribution freely
given by others
o Protection of the
public purpose from
those who would use it
for their private and
money making
purposes
1. Declaration of the Rights of Netizens
i. DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF THE NET and NETIZENS
a. In recognition that the net represents a revolution in human
b. communications that was built by a cooperative non-
commercial
c. process, the following Declaration of the Rights of the Netizen
d. is presented for Netizen comment.
ii. As Netizens are those who take responsibility and care for the
iii. Net, the following are proposed to be their rights:
1. o Universal access at no or low cost
2. o Freedom of Electronic Expression to promote the exchange of
knowledge without fear of reprisal
3. o Uncensored Expression
4. o Access to Broad Distribution
5. o Universal and Equal access to knowledge and information
6. o Consideration of one's ideas on their merits
7. o No limitation to access to read, to post and to otherwise contribute
8. o Equal quality of connection
9. o Equal time of connection
10. o No Official Spokesperson
11. o Uphold the public grassroots purpose and participation
12. o Volunteer Contribution - no personal profit from the
13. contribution freely given by others
14. o Protection of the public purpose from those who would use it for
their private and money making purposes
15. The Net is not a Service, it is a Right. It is only valuable
16. when it is collective and universal. Volunteer effort protects
17. the intellectual and technological common-wealth that is being
created.
i. Inspiration from: RFC 3 (1969), Thomas Paine,
Declaration of
ii. Independence (1776), Declaration of the Rights of Man
and of the
 iii. Citizen (1789), NSF Acceptable Use Policy, Jean
Jacques Rousseau,
iv. and the current cry for democracy worldwide.
2. The Matrix: J.C.R. Licklider(1915-1990)
i. J.C.R. Licklider may well be one of the most influential people in the history
of computer science. As Director of the Information Processing Techniques
Office (IPTO), a division of the Pentagon's Advanced Research Projects
Agency (ARPA), Licklider from 1963-64 put in place the funding priorities
which would lead to the Internet, and the invention of the "mouse,"
"windows" and "hypertext." Together these elements comprise the
foundation of our networked society, and it owes much of its existence to the
man who held the purse-strings, and also created a management culture
where graduate students were left to run a multi-million dollar research
project.
a. A Little History of the World Wide Web
b. 1945 to 1995
1. 1945
2. Vannevar Bush writes an article in Atlantic Monthly about a photo-
electrical-mechanical device called a Memex, for memory extension,
which could make and follow links between documents on microfiche
3. 1960s
4. Doug Engelbart prototypes an "oNLine System" (NLS) which does
hypertext browsing editing, email, and so on. He invents the mouse
for this purpose. See the Bootstrap Institute library. Ted Nelson coins
the word Hypertext in A File Structure for the Complex, the Changing,
and the Indeterminate. 20th National Conference, New York,
Association for Computing Machinery, 1965. See also: Literary
Machines. Note: There used to be a link here to "Hypertext and
Hypermedia: A Selected Bibliography" by Terence Harpold, but the
site hosting the resource did not maintain the link. Andy van Dam
and others build the Hypertext Editing System and FRESS in 1967.
5. 1980
6. While consulting for CERN June-December of 1980, Tim Berners-Lee
writes a notebook program, "Enquire-Within-Upon-Everything", which
allows links to be made between arbitrary nodes. Each node had a
title, a type, and a list of bidirectional typed links. "ENQUIRE" ran on
Norsk Data machines under SINTRAN-III. See: Enquire user manual
as scanned images or as HTML page(alt).
7. 1989
8. March"Information Management: A Proposal" written by Tim BL and
circulated for comments at CERN (TBL). Paper "HyperText and CERN"
produced as background (text or WriteNow format).
9. 1990
10. MaySame proposal recirculatedSeptemberMike Sendall, Tim's boss,
Oks the purchase of a NeXT cube, and allows Tim to go ahead and
write a global hypertext system.OctoberTim starts work on a
hypertext GUI browser+editor using the NeXTStep development
environment. He makes up "WorldWideWeb" as a name for the
program. (See the first browser screenshot) "World Wide Web" as a
name for the project (over Information Mesh, Mine of Information,
and Information Mine).Project original proposal reformulated with
encouragement from CN and ECP divisional management. Robert
Cailliau (ECP) joins and is co-author of new version.NovemberInitial
WorldWideWeb program development continues on the NeXT (TBL) .
This was a "what you see is what you get" (wysiwyg) browser/editor
 with direct inline creation of links. The first web server was
nxoc01.cern.ch, later called info.cern.ch, and the first web page
http://nxoc01.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.htmlleast recently
modified web page we know of, last changed Tue, 13 Nov 1990
15:17:00 GMT (though the URI changed.)NovemberTechnical Student
Nicola PellowPollermann (CN) helps get interface to CERNVM "FIND"
index running. TBL gives a colloquium on hypertext in
general.ChristmasLine mode browser and WorldWideWeb
Unfortunately CERN no longer supports the historical site. Note from
this era too, the (CN) joins and starts work on the line-mode browser.
Bernd
11. 1991
12. Februaryworkplan for the purposes of ECP division.26 February
1991Presentation of the project to the ECP/PT group.MarchLine mode
browser (www) released to limited audience on "priam" vax, rs6000,
sun4.MayWorkplan produced for CN/AS group17 MayPresentation to
"C5" Committee. General release of WWW on central CERN
machines.12 JuneCERN Computer Seminar on WWW.AugustFiles
available on the net by FTP, posted on alt.hypertext (6, 16, 19th
Aug), comp.sys.next (20th), comp.text.sgml and comp.mail.multi-
media (22nd). Jean-Francois Groff joins the project.OctoberVMS/HELP
and WAIS gateways installed. Mailing lists www-interest (now www-
announce) and www-talk@info.cern.ch (see archive)Hypertext'91 in
San Antonio, Texas (US). W3 browser installed on VM/CMS. CERN
computer newsletter announces W3 to the HEP world. Dec 12: Paul
Kunz installs first Web server outside of Europe, at SLAC.
13. 1992
14. 15 JanuaryLine mode browser release 1.1 available by anonymous
FTP (see news). Presentation to AIHEP'92 at La Londe (FR).12
FebruaryLine mode v 1.2 annouced on alt.hypertext,
comp.infosystems, comp.mail.multi-media, cern.sting,
comp.archives.admin, and mailing lists.April29th April: Release of
Finnish "Erwise" GUI client for X mentioned in review by
TimBL.MayPei Wei's "Viola" GUI browser for X test version dated May
15. (See review by TimBL) At CERN, Presentation and demo at
JENC3, Innsbruck (AT). Technical Student Carl Barker (ECP) joins the
project.JunePresentation and demo at HEPVM (Lyon). People at FNAL
(Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (US)), NIKHEF (Nationaal
Instituut voor Kern- en Hoge Energie Fysika, (NL)), DESY (Deutsches
Elektronen Synchrotron, Hamburg, (DE)) join with WWW
servers.JulyDistribution of WWW through CernLib, including Viola.
WWW library code ported to DECnet. Report to the Advisory Board on
Computing.AugustIntroduction of CVS for code management at
CERN.SeptemberPlenary session demonstration to the HEP
community at CHEP'92 in Annecy (FR).NovemberJump back in time to
a snapshot of the WWW Project Page as of 3 Nov 1992 and the WWW
project web of the time, including the list of all 26 resoanably reliable
servers, NCSA's having just been added, but no sign of Mosaic.
15. 1993
16. JanuaryBy now, Midas (Tony Johnson, SLAC), Erwise (HUT), and Viola
(Pei Wei, O'Reilly Associates) browsers are available for X; CERN Mac
browser (ECP) released as alpha. Around 50 known HTTP
servers.FebruaryNCSA release first alpha version of Marc
Andreessen's "Mosaic for X". Computing seminar at CERN. The
University of Minnesota announced that they would begin to charge
 licensing fees for Gopher's use, which caused many volunteers and
employees to stop using it and switch to WWW.MarchWWW (Port 80
HTTP) traffic measures 0.1% of NSF backbone traffic. WWW
presented at Online Publishing 93, Pittsburgh. The Acceptable Use
Policy prohibiting commercial use of the Internet re-interpreted., so
that it becomes becomes allowed.AprilApril 30: Date on the
declaration by CERN's directors that WWW technology would be freely
usable by anyone, with no fees being payable to CERN. A milestone
document.JulyAri Luotonen (ECP) joins the project at CERN. He
implements access authorisation, proceeds to re-write the CERN
httpd server.July 28-30O'Reilly hosts first WWW Wizards Workshop in
Cambridge Mass (US).SeptemberWWW (Port 80 http) traffic
measures 1% of NSF backbone traffic. NCSA releases working
versions of Mosaic browser for all common platforms: X, PC/Windows
and Macintosh. September 6-10: On a bus at a seminar Information
at Newcastle University, MIT's Prof. David Gifford suggests Tim BL
contact Michael Dertouzos of MIT/LCS as a possible consortium host
site.OctoberOver 200 known HTTP servers. The European
Commission, the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft and CERN start the first
Web-based project of the European Union (DG XIII): WISE, using the
Web for dissemination of technological information to Europe's less
favoured regions.DecemberWWW receives IMA award. John Markov
writes a page and a half on WWW and Mosaic in "The New York
Times" (US) business section. "The Guardian" (UK) publishes a page
on WWW, "The Economist" (UK) analyses the Internet and WWW.
Robert Cailliau gets go-ahead from CERN management to organise
the First International WWW Conference at CERN.
17. 1994
18. JanuaryO'Reilly, Spry, etc announce "Internet in a box" product to
bring the Web into homes.MarchMarc Andreessen and colleagues
leave NCSA to form "Mosaic Communications Corp" (later
Netscape).May 25-27First International WWW Conference, CERN,
Geneva. Heavily oversubscribed (800 apply, 400 allowed in): the
"Woodstock of the Web". VRML is conceived here. TBL's closing
keynote hints at upcoming organization. (Some of Tim's slides on
Semantic Web)JuneM. Bangemann report on European Commission
Information Superhighway plan. Over 1500 registered servers. Load
on the first Web server (info.cern.ch) 1000 times what it has been 3
years earlier. JulyMIT/CERN agreement to start W3 Organisation is
announced by Bangemann in Boston. Press release. AP wire. Reports
in Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe etc.AugustFounding of the
IW3C2: the International WWW Conference Committee, in Boston, by
NCSA and CERN.SeptemberThe European Commission and CERN
propose the WebCore project for development of the Web core
technology in Europe.1 OctoberWorld Wide Web Consortium
founded.OctoberSecond International WWW Conference: "Mosaic and
the Web", Chicago. Also heavily oversubscribed: 2000 apply, 1300
allowed in.14 DecemberFirst W3 ConsortiumMeeting at M.I.T. in
Cambridge (USA).15 DecemberFirst meeting with European Industry
and the European Consortium branch, at the European Commission,
Brussels.16 DecemberCERN Council approves unanimously the
construction of the LHC (Large Hadron Collider) accelerator, CERN's
next machine and competitor to the US' already defunct SSC
(Superconducting Supercollider). Stringent budget conditions are
however imposed. CERN thus decides not to continue WWW
 development, and in concertation with the European Commission and
INRIA (the Institut National pour la Recherche en Informatique et
Automatique, FR) transfers the WebCore project to INRIA.
19. 1995
20. Februarythe Web is the main reason for the theme of the G7 meeting
hosted by the European Commission in the European Parliament
buildings in Brussels (BE).MarchCERN holds a two-day seminar for
the European Media (press, radio, TV), attended by 250 reporters, to
show WWW. It is demonstrated on 60 machines, with 30 pupils from
the local International High School helping the reporters "surf the
Web".AprilThird International WWW Conference: "Tools and
Applications", hosted by the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, in Darmstadt
(DE)JuneFounding of the Web Society in Graz (AT), by the Technical
University of Graz (home of Hyper-G), CERN, the University of
Minnesota (home of Gopher) and INRIA.
3. How It All Started
a. Tim Berners-Lee
b. W3C Tenth Anniversary
c. 1 Dec 2004
d. How It All Started
e. W3C Team
i. W3C Team photo, November 2001, Courmettes, France
a. W3C Spell Checker for http://whatgetsmehot.posterous.com/
i. How It All Started presentation matierals from the W3C
10th Anniversary Celebration
ii. T. Berners-Lee, "Weaving the Web" , Harper Collins
1999 a very short history of hypertext
iii. History of Internet and WWW: The Roads and
Crossroads of Internet History 1995-1998 by Gregory
R. Gromov
iv. ... List of Internet Histories (from ISOC)

The Net is not a Service, it is a

Right. It is only valuable
when it is collective and universal.
Volunteer effort protects
the intellectual and technological
common-wealth that is being
created.
Inspiration from: RFC 3 (1969), Thomas Paine, Declaration of

Independence (1776), Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the

 Citizen (1789), NSF Acceptable Use Policy, Jean Jacques Rousseau,

and the current cry for democracy worldwide.

The Matrix: J.C.R.

Licklider(1915-1990)
J.C.R. Licklider may well be one of the most influential people in the history of computer science.
As Director of the Information Processing Techniques Office (IPTO), a division of the Pentagon's
Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), Licklider from 1963-64 put in place the funding
priorities which would lead to the Internet, and the invention of the "mouse," "windows" and
"hypertext." Together these elements comprise the foundation of our networked society, and it
owes much of its existence to the man who held the purse-strings, and also created a
management culture where graduate students were left to run a multi-million dollar research
project.

===============================

A Little History of the World

Wide Web

1945 to 1995
1945

Vannevar Bush writes an article in Atlantic Monthly

about a photo-electrical-mechanical device called a
Memex, for memory extension, which could make and
follow links between documents on microfiche
1960s
Doug Engelbart prototypes an "oNLine System"
(NLS) which does hypertext browsing editing,
email, and so on. He invents the mouse for this
purpose. See the Bootstrap Institute library.
Ted Nelson coins the word Hypertext in A File
Structure for the Complex, the Changing, and
the Indeterminate. 20th National Conference,
New York, Association for Computing
Machinery, 1965. See also: Literary Machines.
Note: There used to be a link here to "Hypertext
and Hypermedia: A Selected Bibliography" by
Terence Harpold, but the site hosting the
resource did not maintain the link. Andy van
Dam and others build the Hypertext Editing
System and FRESS in 1967.
1980
While consulting for CERN June-December of
1980, Tim Berners-Lee writes a notebook
program, "Enquire-Within-Upon-Everything",
which allows links to be made between
arbitrary nodes. Each node had a title, a type,
and a list of bidirectional typed links.
"ENQUIRE" ran on Norsk Data machines under
SINTRAN-III. See: Enquire user manual as
scanned images or as HTML page(alt).
1989
March"Information Management: A Proposal"
written by Tim BL and circulated for comments
at CERN (TBL). Paper "HyperText and CERN"
produced as background (text or WriteNow
format).
1990
MaySame proposal recirculatedSeptemberMike
Sendall, Tim's boss, Oks the purchase of a NeXT
cube, and allows Tim to go ahead and write a
global hypertext system.OctoberTim starts
work on a hypertext GUI browser+editor using
the NeXTStep development environment. He
makes up "WorldWideWeb" as a name for the
program. (See the first browser screenshot)
"World Wide Web" as a name for the project
(over Information Mesh, Mine of Information,
and Information Mine).Project original proposal
reformulated with encouragement from CN and
ECP divisional management. Robert Cailliau
(ECP) joins and is co-author of new
version.NovemberInitial WorldWideWeb
program development continues on the NeXT
(TBL) . This was a "what you see is what you
get" (wysiwyg) browser/editor with direct
inline creation of links. The first web server was
nxoc01.cern.ch, later called info.cern.ch, and
the first web page
http://nxoc01.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/ThePr
oject.htmlleast recently modified web page we
know of, last changed Tue, 13 Nov 1990
15:17:00 GMT (though the URI
changed.)NovemberTechnical Student Nicola
PellowPollermann (CN) helps get interface to
CERNVM "FIND" index running. TBL gives a
colloquium on hypertext in
general.ChristmasLine mode browser and
WorldWideWeb Unfortunately CERN no longer supports the historical site.
Note from this era too, the (CN) joins and starts work on the line-mode browser.
Bernd

1991
Februaryworkplan for the purposes of ECP
division.26 February 1991Presentation of the
project to the ECP/PT group.MarchLine mode
browser (www) released to limited audience on
"priam" vax, rs6000, sun4.MayWorkplan
produced for CN/AS group17 MayPresentation
to "C5" Committee. General release of WWW on
central CERN machines.12 JuneCERN Computer
Seminar on WWW.AugustFiles available on the
net by FTP, posted on alt.hypertext (6, 16, 19th
Aug), comp.sys.next (20th), comp.text.sgml
and comp.mail.multi-media (22nd). Jean-
Francois Groff joins the
project.OctoberVMS/HELP and WAIS gateways
installed. Mailing lists www-interest (now
www-announce) and www-talk@info.cern.ch
(see archive)Hypertext'91 in San Antonio,
Texas (US). W3 browser installed on VM/CMS.
CERN computer newsletter announces W3 to
the HEP world. Dec 12: Paul Kunz installs first
Web server outside of Europe, at SLAC.
1992
15 JanuaryLine mode browser release 1.1
available by anonymous FTP (see news).
Presentation to AIHEP'92 at La Londe (FR).12
FebruaryLine mode v 1.2 annouced on
alt.hypertext, comp.infosystems,
comp.mail.multi-media, cern.sting,
comp.archives.admin, and mailing
lists.April29th April: Release of Finnish "Erwise"
GUI client for X mentioned in review by
TimBL.MayPei Wei's "Viola" GUI browser for X
test version dated May 15. (See review by
TimBL) At CERN, Presentation and demo at
JENC3, Innsbruck (AT). Technical Student Carl
Barker (ECP) joins the project.JunePresentation
and demo at HEPVM (Lyon). People at FNAL
(Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (US)),
NIKHEF (Nationaal Instituut voor Kern- en
Hoge Energie Fysika, (NL)), DESY (Deutsches
Elektronen Synchrotron, Hamburg, (DE)) join
with WWW servers.JulyDistribution of WWW
through CernLib, including Viola. WWW library
code ported to DECnet. Report to the Advisory
Board on Computing.AugustIntroduction of CVS
for code management at
CERN.SeptemberPlenary session demonstration
to the HEP community at CHEP'92 in Annecy
(FR).NovemberJump back in time to a snapshot
of the WWW Project Page as of 3 Nov 1992 and
the WWW project web of the time, including the
list of all 26 resoanably reliable servers, NCSA's
having just been added, but no sign of Mosaic.
1993
JanuaryBy now, Midas (Tony Johnson, SLAC),
Erwise (HUT), and Viola (Pei Wei, O'Reilly
Associates) browsers are available for X; CERN
Mac browser (ECP) released as alpha. Around
50 known HTTP servers.FebruaryNCSA release
first alpha version of Marc Andreessen's
"Mosaic for X". Computing seminar at CERN.
The University of Minnesota announced that
they would begin to charge licensing fees for
Gopher's use, which caused many volunteers
and employees to stop using it and switch to
WWW.MarchWWW (Port 80 HTTP) traffic
measures 0.1% of NSF backbone traffic. WWW
presented at Online Publishing 93, Pittsburgh.
The Acceptable Use Policy prohibiting
commercial use of the Internet re-interpreted.,
so that it becomes becomes allowed.AprilApril
30: Date on the declaration by CERN's directors
that WWW technology would be freely usable
by anyone, with no fees being payable to CERN.
A milestone document.JulyAri Luotonen (ECP)
joins the project at CERN. He implements
access authorisation, proceeds to re-write the
CERN httpd server.July 28-30O'Reilly hosts first
WWW Wizards Workshop in Cambridge Mass
(US).SeptemberWWW (Port 80 http) traffic
measures 1% of NSF backbone traffic. NCSA
releases working versions of Mosaic browser
for all common platforms: X, PC/Windows and
Macintosh. September 6-10: On a bus at a
seminar Information at Newcastle University,
MIT's Prof. David Gifford suggests Tim BL
contact Michael Dertouzos of MIT/LCS as a
possible consortium host site.OctoberOver 200
known HTTP servers. The European
Commission, the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft and
CERN start the first Web-based project of the
European Union (DG XIII): WISE, using the
Web for dissemination of technological
information to Europe's less favoured
regions.DecemberWWW receives IMA award.
John Markov writes a page and a half on WWW
and Mosaic in "The New York Times" (US)
business section. "The Guardian" (UK)
publishes a page on WWW, "The Economist"
(UK) analyses the Internet and WWW. Robert
Cailliau gets go-ahead from CERN management
to organise the First International WWW
Conference at CERN.

1994
JanuaryO'Reilly, Spry, etc announce "Internet in a
box" product to bring the Web into homes.MarchMarc
Andreessen and colleagues leave NCSA to form
"Mosaic Communications Corp" (later Netscape).May
25-27First International WWW Conference, CERN,
Geneva. Heavily oversubscribed (800 apply, 400
allowed in): the "Woodstock of the Web". VRML is
conceived here. TBL's closing keynote hints at
upcoming organization. (Some of Tim's slides on
Semantic Web)JuneM. Bangemann report on European
Commission Information Superhighway plan. Over
1500 registered servers. Load on the first Web server
(info.cern.ch) 1000 times what it has been 3 years
earlier. JulyMIT/CERN agreement to start W3
Organisation is announced by Bangemann in Boston.
Press release. AP wire. Reports in Wall Street Journal,
Boston Globe etc.AugustFounding of the IW3C2: the
International WWW Conference Committee, in Boston,
by NCSA and CERN.SeptemberThe European
Commission and CERN propose the WebCore project
for development of the Web core technology in
Europe.1 OctoberWorld Wide Web Consortium
founded.OctoberSecond International WWW
Conference: "Mosaic and the Web", Chicago. Also
heavily oversubscribed: 2000 apply, 1300 allowed
in.14 DecemberFirst W3 ConsortiumMeeting at
M.I.T. in Cambridge (USA).15 DecemberFirst meeting
with European Industry and the European Consortium
branch, at the European Commission, Brussels.16
DecemberCERN Council approves unanimously the
construction of the LHC (Large Hadron Collider)
accelerator, CERN's next machine and competitor to
the US' already defunct SSC (Superconducting
Supercollider). Stringent budget conditions are
however imposed. CERN thus decides not to continue
WWW development, and in concertation with the
European Commission and INRIA (the Institut National
pour la Recherche en Informatique et Automatique,
FR) transfers the WebCore project to INRIA.
1995
Februarythe Web is the main reason for the
theme of the G7 meeting hosted by the
European Commission in the European
Parliament buildings in Brussels
(BE).MarchCERN holds a two-day seminar for
the European Media (press, radio, TV), attended
by 250 reporters, to show WWW. It is
demonstrated on 60 machines, with 30 pupils
from the local International High School helping
the reporters "surf the Web".AprilThird
International WWW Conference: "Tools and
Applications", hosted by the Fraunhofer
Gesellschaft, in Darmstadt (DE)JuneFounding of
the Web Society in Graz (AT), by the Technical
University of Graz (home of Hyper-G), CERN,
the University of Minnesota (home of Gopher)
and INRIA.

How It All Started

Tim Berners-Lee

W3C Tenth Anniversary

1 Dec 2004

How It All Started

Tim Berners-Lee Director, World Wide Web Consortium

1974: Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn publish "A Protocol for Packet Network Interconnection", which
specified in detail the design of a Transmission Control Protocol (TCP).
End 1990: Development begins for first browser (called "WorldWideWeb"), editor, server, and
line-mode browser. Culminates in first Web client-server communication over Internet in
December 1990.

Dec: Hypertext '91 Conference in San Antonio, Texas (USA). TBL paper on Web only accepted as
poster session.
Jun: TimBL visits Xerox, hosted by Larry Masinter.

TimBL visits MIT/LCS hosted by Karen Sollins.

Mar: NCSA releases first alpha version of Mosaic for X Windows.
W3C publishes first W3C Recommendation for HTML - HTML 3.2.
W3C Team
W3C Team photo, November 2001, Courmettes, France

Photo courtesy of Karl Dubost.

See also:

W3C Spell Checker for http://whatgetsmehot.posterous.com/

How It All Started presentation matierals from the W3C 10th Anniversary Celebration
T. Berners-Lee, "Weaving the Web" , Harper Collins 1999 a very short history of hypertext
History of Internet and WWW: The Roads and Crossroads of Internet History 1995-1998 by Gregory R.
Gromov
... List of Internet Histories (from ISOC)

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