{"id":352,"date":"2007-09-20T05:01:16","date_gmt":"2007-09-20T13:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/20\/genesis\/"},"modified":"2007-09-20T05:02:12","modified_gmt":"2007-09-20T13:02:12","slug":"genesis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/webwork\/genesis\/","title":{"rendered":"Genesis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NYT has made its archive of articles freely available, permitting some interesting searches. The first mention of the worldwide web, &#8220;a collection of computer networks that does a little of what a national data highway would do and that already has hundreds of thousands of computer users,&#8221; appears to have been in <a href=\"http:\/\/query.nytimes.com\/gst\/fullpage.html?res=9F0CE5DC1239F93BA15751C0A965958260&amp;sec=&amp;spon=&amp;pagewanted=all\" title=\"first mention of web\">this article from February 1993<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Internet is a web of networks with shared software standards, allowing users on one network to reach anywhere into a global thicket. Created by the Pentagon, the Internet was originally limited to academic and corporate researchers and government officials. It began as a simple mechanism for sharing data, using remote computers and exchanging electronic mail. Now it contains large and small, commercial and nonprofit networks that offer a remarkable array of services.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>By December of the next year the website that would evolve into this one (at that time the site of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/mercury-pages\/mh.htm\" title=\"mercury house book publishing\">Mercury House<\/a> publishing, on which I kept a corner for my personal stuff) would be live. Its first iteration was created by one of our interns, Joshua Grossnickle, who went on to write <em>The Handbook of Online Marketing Research<\/em> together with Oliver Raskin; they are the principals of SiteCentric.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NYT has made its archive of articles freely available, permitting some interesting searches. The first mention of the worldwide web, &#8220;a collection of computer networks that does&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}