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The Year the World Wide Web Went Mainstream
CAPTURES: 14,208
VOLUME: 892 MB
RESTORED: 94.2%
BROWSER ERA: MOSAIC 1.0
| URL / HOST | CAPTURE DATE | SIZE | FORMAT | STATUS | ACTION |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html | 1993-04-12 | 24.1 KB | HTML | ARCHIVED | |
| http://www.mcs.net/~paulc/ | 1993-08-03 | 18.6 KB | HTML | ARCHIVED | |
| ftp://nicers.net/ | 1993-06-15 | 412 MB | DIR | PARTIAL | |
| http://www.hotwired.com/ | 1993-11-20 | 32.4 KB | HTML | ARCHIVED | |
| gopher://gopher.micro.umn.edu/ | 1993-02-09 | 8.2 KB | MENU | ARCHIVED | |
| http://www.well.com/~margaret/ | 1993-09-14 | 15.7 KB | HTML | DEAD LINK |
⧫ HISTORICAL CONTEXT: 1993
1993 marked the transition from academic research to public internet access. Key milestones include:
- Jan: NCSA Mosaic 1.0 released for Windows
- Apr: CERN announces WWW will be royalty-free
- Jun: First commercial web servers go live
- Oct: RFC 1945 (HTTP/1.0) published
- Dec: AltaVista prototype begins development
Captures from this year primarily reflect pre-CSS HTML, table-based layouts, and the shift from Gopher/FTP to HTTP.
⌘ CRAWL LOG (1993-12-31)
[1993-12-31 08:14:02] INFO Initializing Year-End Sweep...
[1993-12-31 08:14:05] OK Connected to relay node: US-WEST-1
[1993-12-31 08:15:12] INFO Parsing sitemap: /var/www/hosts/1993/
[1993-12-31 08:16:44] WARN 404 on http://www.mcs.net/~oldsite/
[1993-12-31 08:18:01] OK Indexed 14,208 resources
[1993-12-31 08:18:03] INFO Year-end snapshot complete. Archiving...