Happy Birthday to the Web

[dimensionm]

This past week marked an important historical occasion: the 20th anniversary of the opening of the World Wide Web to the general public. At that time, all useful work ground to a halt forever and cats everywhere suddenly had a bright future in show business. In honor of the occasion, CERN, the organization responsible for the development of the

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[cahwyguy]

Wrong on Perl. Larry came up with Perl in around 1985 or 1986. I know I was using it on BLACKER around then (Larry and I and Larry's BIL Mark were carpooling to work together, and Larry and I shared an office at SDC ... I was the first user of Perl).

[dimensionm]

Thanks. Correction now noted in the entry. The error ended up being a learning opportunity, as I took the time to read up on Perl's rich history.