Mmmm Indian

[dagibbs]

So, I'm spending Friday night in Springfield, rather than Monett, causing I'm flying out in the morning and it is easier this way. So, I asked the clerk at the hotel for an Indian or Thai restaurant. He suggested an Indian one, it was most of the way accross town, but Springfield isn't that big of a place, so I headed off. Mm.... food with flavour. Ok, BBQ is flavour, and I did go to the BBQ place the last couple of nights... but still, this was a good change.

Tomorrow is going to be a LONG day... hope I hold up for it. Get up, airport, Springfield->Detroit->Ottawa, then get home in Ottawa. Unpack, re-pack, and drive to Montreal. Party in Montreal until, if history is any indicator, all hours of the morning. Ok, if I don't pass out from exhaustion before the party is half over, of course.

And, it looks like I'll be going to Lunacon with foms next weekend. Yes, we have verified, twice over, that this the correct weekend, and that we won't arrive there only to find that we'd arrived early for the convention. A week early.

Comments

[foms.livejournal.com]

I think that it may have been before the web. The net was around but I hadn't even seen the web yet. 1991, was it?

My response was that we had to break the jinx.[g]

[dagibbs.livejournal.com]

If it was 1991, our little journey was probably overlapping in time with the creation and deployment of the world's first webserver.

From a bit of history (http://www.hitmill.com/internet/web_history.asp):

User Interface
A line-mode user interface (named at CERN, the world wide web or www) was completed in late 1989. The interface was used on a minor network in March 1991. May 1991 was the first time that the information-sharing system using HTML, HTTP, and a client software program (www) was fully operational on the multiplatform computer network at the CERN laboratories in Switzerland.

File Availability
The availability of CERN's files was announced in the UseNET newsgroup, alt.hypertext, in August 1991. This was the first time that the availability of the files was announced to the public.

"Web Server"
All of the documents coded with HTML elements were stored on one main computer at CERN. This special type of computer was called a "web server" (by the physicists at CERN) because it "served-up" batches of cross-linked HTML documents. There was only one Web server located at CERN, but by the end of 1992 there were over 50 Web servers in the world. Many of these earliest Web servers were located at universities or other research centers. These servers were using line-mode interfaces.

[foms.livejournal.com]

I thought as much. I remember seeing the web early on when a friend at McGill (who was running a computer lab) was showing off the cool, new shiny thing.