I do all sorts of social media tracking at work. And we’re ramping up to launch a celebration that will last through the end of 2014: The 25th anniversary of the Web, and to a lesser extent the 20th anniversary of the W3C.
There was a flurry of replies (including from many peeps I know) to the @w3c tweet:
The Web turns 25th on Wednesday! Follow the conversation using #web25 and share your earliest memories of the Web with us! #web25
— W3C Team (@w3c) March 10, 2014
Having spent 6 hours reading them and sharing them with the @web25 handle, I compiled a list of keywords (some more predictable than others –hamster dance!?11!) included in the messages Twitter users shared thus far with hashtag #web25:
- universities,
- evenings,
- text-only,
- inspiration,
- lynx,
- floppy (yes, yes),
- usenet,
- dial-up,
- modem,
- new world
- AOL,
- Geocities,
- Internet cafe,
- Mosaic,
- table layout,
- Alta Vista,
- view source,
- 56k,
- gopher,
- ViolaWWW,
- hamster dance,
- Myspace,
- Netscape Composer,
- Flash,
- chat all over the world,
- PHP3,
- 33.6k modem.
- Super Mario cheats,
- Yahoo! homepage,
- Marquee,
- blink (a tag back then, not a fork),
- Commodore 64
