Stanford Libraries unearths the earliest U.S. website (news.stanford.edu) 7 points by tdeitch 11y ago ↗ HN
[–] mturmon 11y ago ↗ Yes! There is a photo of the NeXT cube hosting the SLAC website at the bottom right of this page:https://www6.slac.stanford.edu/news/2014-10-29-earliest-webs...And on that cube is a yellow post-it note: "PLEASE DO NOT TURN COMPUTER OFF":https://www6.slac.stanford.edu/sites/www6.slac.stanford.edu/...Shades of the original server of Tim Berners-Lee:http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:First_Web_Server.jpg
[–] xaa 11y ago ↗ Direct link: https://wayback.stanford.edu/19911206000000/http://slacvm.sl...If you view source, it's utterly depressing that literally 98% of the page's code is dedicated to rendering Stanford's fancy overlay. The actual site, OTOH, is 8 lines. Wish we could have stayed with that simplicity and elegance.
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And on that cube is a yellow post-it note: "PLEASE DO NOT TURN COMPUTER OFF":
https://www6.slac.stanford.edu/sites/www6.slac.stanford.edu/...
Shades of the original server of Tim Berners-Lee:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:First_Web_Server.jpg
If you view source, it's utterly depressing that literally 98% of the page's code is dedicated to rendering Stanford's fancy overlay. The actual site, OTOH, is 8 lines. Wish we could have stayed with that simplicity and elegance.