This made me laugh.
(https://th3core.com/chat/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fa3.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net%2Fhphotos-ak-snc7%2F424621_10152093534725521_974499819_n.jpg&hash=64c6f879973551711b78d4f0d95300ad1ae0131a)
That takes me back. Thanks.
>dat byline
was in college, just starting to use really a computer for the first time. Didn't hear of this for years:)
It's not a real front page :)
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/hold_ye_front_page/
and specifically - http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/hold_ye_front_page/science/2684625/em1991em-Invention-of-World-Wide-Web.html
Quote from: TallTroll on September 08, 2012, 01:44:00 PM
>dat byline
Yup - hoax. Can't be from 1992 as I see around the web. First known use (as a phrase not as a TLD) is 1994: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dot-com
Looks more like an Onion article from say the late 1990s
The internet according to The Onion, 1996
http://www.theonion.com/articles/company-to-use-internet-to-waste-money-employees-t,19668/
http://www.theonion.com/articles/experts-predict-online-world-of-21st-century-to-fe,1682/
http://www.theonion.com/articles/earth-contacted-by-extraterrestrial-nerds,1044/ (see third to last paragraph for internet connection).
No uses of "dot com" until 2000....
http://www.theonion.com/articles/bankrupt-dotcom-proud-to-have-briefly-changed-the,3686/
And just for fun... earliest article on The Onion to use "World Wide Web" (this is all based on internal search)
http://www.theonion.com/articles/america-online-to-build-three-million-home-pages-f,605/
This one is awesome:
http://www.theonion.com/articles/internet-adds-12th-website,2753/ (if you don't get it right off, you skipped the first word of the body of the article)