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Was anybody in here active with WWW/HTML and Usenet, back then,
that would remember this?

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Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.www
From: pfl...@curia.ucc.ie (Peter Flynn)
Subject: Re: Mutant idea for web mirroring publishing
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Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1993 11:55:28 GMT
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In article q...@news.acns.nwu.edu, Albert-Lu...@nwu.edu
(Albert Lunde) writes:
>I just had a mutant idea for distributing WWW documents to
>multiple servers. If one had a WWW client able to treat
>news articles as HTML, one might publish a set of HTML
>documents, using news: URLs based on article IDs to
>link the documents together.

Neat. Maybe someone newgroup alt.html and we'll try it out. If the
"standard" is that the text body of a post in this group is always a
conformant HTML text, then a server could have a few lines added to
dump the headers into a temp file using <pre> and add a <link> to
the header of the post body to point at it.

///Peter

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In article <>,
lid says...
> Was anybody in here active with WWW/HTML and Usenet, back then,
> that would remember this?

I was online in 1993, but not in a Usenet context. Just downloading
through Lynx (I think) on Slackware linux.

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Blinky the Shark wrote:

> Maybe someone newgroup alt.html and we'll try it out. If the "standard"
> is that the text body of a post in this group is always a conformant
> HTML text

Hmmm... don't try that out though.

It looks like these people did not go on to create alt.html though.
alt.html was newgrouped more than two years later by Luis Meza (Message ID
4bf7iq$)

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Hywel Jenkins <> wrote in
news: k:

> In article <>,
> lid says...
>> Was anybody in here active with WWW/HTML and Usenet, back then,
>> that would remember this?
>
> I was online in 1993, but not in a Usenet context. Just downloading
> through Lynx (I think) on Slackware linux.
>

Flashback to BBS. I'm sure there are others old enough to remember
those too. IIRC, WWW was still pretty new graphically. I was reading
newsgroups with a DOS based reader but I was more into Netware Server
administration then than HTML. I doubt I even could have told you what
HTML was back then.

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