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Stanford Libraries unearths the earliest U.S. website
- mturmon 12y agoYes! 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-websites-reappear-stanford-wayback.aspx 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/files/styles/lightbox_large_image/public/images/Wizards-2.jpg 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 http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:First_Web_Server.jpg
- xaa 12y agoDirect link: https://wayback.stanford.edu/19911206000000/http://slacvm.slac.stanford.edu/FIND/default.html 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.