New Members Added: 148/1000 Skip to content Try Ads-Free Fark It's Not News, It's Fark How To FarkLog In | Sign Up » Forgot password? Turn on javascript (or enable it for Fark) for a better user experience. If you can read this, either the style sheet didn't load or you have an older browser that doesn't support style sheets. Try clearing your browser cache and refreshing the page. Discussion Entertainment On this day in history, in 1993, the World Wide Web launched into the public domain. While on the one hand this event cemented the downfall of human civilization, at least it made porn easy to find (history.com) More: Vintage, Web browser, Internet, Computer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Code, WorldWideWeb, Server (computing), CERN 198 clicks;posted toMain »and STEM »on 30 Apr 2025 at 11:13 AM(55 minutes ago) | Favorite | Watch | share: Copy Link 33 Comments Enable JavaScript for Fark in order to vote for entries. Log in (at the top of the page) to enable voting. View Voting Results:SmartestandFunniest the unabomber was right (2) Funniest 51 minutes ago Thought for sure the today in history was going to be 50 years since the end of the Vietnam War. Any veterans here on Fark? The Pope of Manwich Village (2) Funniest 32 minutes ago THANK YOU, AL GORE! (1) Funniest 31 minutes ago The CERN http server was available for download in 1991. I had it running at Univ of Miami that summer. (1) Funniest 31 minutes ago Join the webring and sign the guestbook. (5) Funniest 42 minutes ago First thing I looked up on the WWW was Mortal Kombat 2 finishing move codes. My reaction when the first few lines of pixels began to load was, "HOLY fark! There are colour pictures?!" The next thing I looked up was porn. (5) Funniest 31 minutes ago Web 1.0 was awesome. Social media and the link between user-generated "content" and advertising ruined everything. NeoCortex42 (0) Funniest 31 minutes ago Easy to find, but forever to load. (0) Funniest 31 minutes ago I wouldn't say easy, Bob. (0) Funniest 35 minutes ago SumoJeb: First thing I looked up on the WWW was Mortal Kombat 2 finishing move codes. My reaction when the first few lines of pixels began to load was, "HOLY fark! There are colour pictures?!" The next thing I looked up was porn. First thing I did was find an auction site where I could buy a Sega Master System. I loved Phantasy Star when I was very young, and at 12-13, I was dying to play it again. Found one for $90! NeoCortex42 (0) Funniest 35 minutes ago Kubo: Web 1.0 was awesome. Social media and the link between user-generated "content" and advertising ruined everything. We should just go back to Web Rings. (0) Funniest 34 minutes ago The only porn on the internet in the 90s was a handful of hard-to-find slow-loading GIFs scanned in from magazines or digitized from film negatives or VHS tapes. Consumer digital photo cameras weren't available until 1999. (4) Funniest 31 minutes ago http://info.cern.ch/ ...launched on August 6, 1991, by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN. It served as a basic guide to the World Wide Web, explaining its functionality and how to set up a web server. The site remains active, preserved as a historical artifact, though its content has been updated to reflect its legacy. -Grok (4) Funniest 36 minutes ago I'm sure someone's made a plugin to simulate the web in 1993. It was insanely slow. For example, I remember 'upgrading' to a 28.8 kbps modem and it felt like going from a golf cart to a racecar. The pictures loaded in smaller and smaller blocks, layouts were all crappy panes, and those stupid 'under construction' gifs were everywhere. And then on top of that you were timed by the minute. MillionDollarMo (1) Funniest 35 minutes ago Clunkily unveiled nudie jpegs is like the silent film era of internet porn. NuclearPenguins (1) Funniest 33 minutes ago Russ1642: I'm sure someone's made a plugin to simulate the web in 1993. It was insanely slow. For example, I remember 'upgrading' to a 28.8 kbps modem and it felt like going from a golf cart to a racecar. The pictures loaded in smaller and smaller blocks, layouts were all crappy panes, and those stupid 'under construction' gifs were everywhere. And then on top of that you were timed by the minute. Yes, but no advertising, and you had to be somewhat intelligent to even get online in the first place, which kept out most of the riff-raff. It was a better time unchellmatt (0) Funniest 32 minutes ago My first "internet" experience was just a simple BBS, I think it was called "Boston Citynet". You'd dial directly in (as in taking handset of home phone and putting it in a cradle and beeeeeeeeeebooooooboinboinboing) to the servers and there were numerous little "forums". So funny to think about now. We would use abbreviations not just to make things simpler or convey emotion, but to save on speed! An entire paragraph of text could take like a minute to download. Good times... Don Cherry's tailor (0) Funniest 31 minutes ago farking modems! DuneClimber (1) Funniest 31 minutes ago The internet was really awesome...until around 2010. Then things REALLY went downhill. Since internet became a thing constantly used by everyone, it's sped up the fracture of the country. Each of its two halves live in totally different worlds with totally different facts. It kind of killed our country. Also, it's killing movie theaters, which makes me sad. I wish we could go back to the days when I and others like me were big internet people, but the general population still didn't take it seriously. Like pre-2008 or so. oldfarthenry (0) Funniest less than a minute ago Young buck Henry circa 1996: 'It took 3 hours but I finally loaded Window 95 on my brand new computer. Now to explore this "world wide web" thingy.' 'Derp-hurp, me smarter now!' Drunk and Bitter Jesus (0) Funniest less than a minute ago I'm the first? Fark, I am disappoint. HotLonelyTeenageGirl (0) Funniest less than a minute ago MillionDollarMo: Clunkily unveiled nudie jpegs is like the silent film era of internet porn. For a teenage boy, I remember it being excellent practice for the future. After all, you didn't want your money shot to happen before the downloading jpeg got to her money shot, ya know what I mean? /Just kidding, I never made it to the end of the download FrostbiteFallsMN (2) Funniest less than a minute ago (0) Funniest less than a minute ago If it all disappeared except for porn I would be so happy Porous Horace (0) Funniest less than a minute ago Ascii Express ftw. (0) Funniest 20 minutes ago HotLonelyTeenageGirl: MillionDollarMo: Clunkily unveiled nudie jpegs is like the silent film era of internet porn. For a teenage boy, I remember it being excellent practice for the future. After all, you didn't want your money shot to happen before the downloading jpeg got to her money shot, ya know what I mean? /Just kidding, I never made it to the end of the download Often, once a nipple appeared I considered the image good enough. The Exit Stencilist (5) Funniest less than a minute ago Be honest subby, It's not the advent of the internet that started the end of civility and truth, the internet actually served its intended purpose for 20 years, creating jobs, opportunities and bringing people closer together and was a net gain over all. It was Facebook that turned their user base into a bunch of hate mongering conspiracy theory swilling troglodytes, then came Twitter and turned information toxicity seen on Facebook into a fire hose So no, it wasn't the internet or the WWW itself that brought the cancer, it was the users and the techie billionaire pieces of shiat who saw the toxicity, saw the harm, and saw that it was profitable and turned up the dial (0) Funniest less than a minute ago I had never heard of the internet in 1995 until a guy from a different unit showed me Mosaic and his folder of downloaded porn images. (0) Funniest less than a minute ago I graduated high school not long after. Started college in august. Had to do the whole placement exam. Dad drove me. Dad was paying my tuition (i'm damn lucky for that). But, i had to pay for everything else. Dad looked at me and said if i go computer science, he'll won't pay for tuition. He saw what is happening, realized a lot of people my age are going to jump into CS. He thought by the time i graduate college, i'd be "a dime a dozen." He wasn't all that wrong. I had friends in CS and IT by the time I graduated. Most jumped around jobs for the next decade. I've been at the same company since a few months after graduating college. It was supposed to be a stepping stone. Its worked well. I've thanked my dad many times for that over the years. (0) Funniest less than a minute ago Are we better now for the sake of it? (2) Funniest less than a minute ago The Exit Stencilist: Be honest subby, It's not the advent of the internet that started the end of civility and truth, the internet actually served its intended purpose for 20 years, creating jobs, opportunities and bringing people closer together and was a net gain over all. It was Facebook that turned their user base into a bunch of hate mongering conspiracy theory swilling troglodytes, then came Twitter and turned information toxicity seen on Facebook into a fire hose So no, it wasn't the internet or the WWW itself that brought the cancer, it was the users and the techie billionaire pieces of shiat who saw the toxicity, saw the harm, and saw that it was profitable and turned up the dial What ruined the internet was the fact that social media executives discovered that people's online behaviors could be modeled to maximize the amount of time their eyes were on the screen, thereby appealing to advertisers. They also discovered that anger and self-perceived expertise were engaging. Make people angry or feed them controversial information that reinforces their beliefs, and they'll keep looking. So, we get Zuckerberg kicking off a process where these jerkoffs enrich themselves on the anger and stupidity of social media users. Facebook and its offspring have has always been a menace. The Pope of Manwich Village (0) Funniest less than a minute ago Freshman year of college in '91, my roommates and I were still sharing a Smith Corona typewriter/"word processor" with a 16 character LCD display that worked like a radio station's dump button - if you made a mistake, you had 15 characters to stop and fix it before it hit the paper. We went to the library and used newspapers, magazines, encyclopedias, journals, white papers, etc. - most of it on microfiche - to write our papers. Sophomore year, my roommate got a Gateway 2000 with a printer and dial-up. We thought it would be a game changer, until we went to classes and every syllabus had a disclaimer that said that internet citations were not allowed for any of our papers - because the internet was too unreliable and filled with dis/misinformation. Lol, if they only knew what was to come. (0) Funniest less than a minute ago They missed a golden opportunity for all pron sites to end in dot cum iron de havilland (0) Funniest less than a minute ago My first legit internet experience was via Spud's Public Usenet Domain. Unix shell and email/Usenet via UUCP only, no web access, but could chat with other users. Then my buddy who'd helped his neighbour out with computer issues nicked the neighbour's login and password and shared it with me. Same buddy also figured out that Compuserve didn't live check credit cards before giving you access, so you just needed a CC# generator and you'd get a day or two of access before they shut the account down. Demon Internet was the biggest ISP, with the ethos of TAM (tenner a month) internet, you got your own @pleh.demon.co.uk email addresses and website at www.pleh.demon.co.uk and I think a static IP address, which was important back then. Come to think of it, there's a Big Clive stream link posted to Fark each Saturday; first time I encountered his work was at his Demon-hosted site, Things to Make and Do. He had a page "make a USB poo", now carried over to his own domain. In the early days, I did find Usenet better for porn because it was all right there arranged hierarchically, even though uuencode etc. were a pain. Kinda wish Usenet forums could have evolved in a way that web forums never became a thing, but given the decentralised nature of Usenet, I guess that would never have happened. /5434 1234 4321 4345 is a valid credit card #. Displayed 33 of 33 comments Enable JavaScript for Fark in order to vote for entries. Log in (at the top of the page) to enable voting. View Voting Results:SmartestandFunniest Redisplay/refresh comments If you're having problems voting, quoting, or posting comments, try disabling any browser add-ons that might disable Javascript (NoScript, AdBlock, etc).See our FAQ. Forgot password? 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