This made me laugh.

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)