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[–]PacManFan123 36 points37 points ago

So, you took a picture of the screen an re-posted? Brilliant!

[–]Schrodingers_Bat 0 points1 point ago

You beat me to it, but together, you can I can do great things.

[–]Atario 52 points53 points ago

Seems like it must be satire. "Dot Comme"?

[–]Deslyn 8 points9 points ago

Not any more than any other article on The Sun. source

[–]Jumile 0 points1 point ago

I suspect Dot Comme is a cute pseudonym to denote a "staff writer on IT issues". A bit like the "You couldn't make it up department" from Reader's Digest.

[–]roguevalley 2 points3 points ago

Before the Web was known? I think not.

[–]Jumile 0 points1 point ago

I don't know about that. I've been on the Internet since 1989, back then on Australia's first public/non-academic ISP, which was all 1200bps dialup using Xmodem and UNIX shell, long before PPP and SLIP - never mind ADSL.

Although I first encountered the graphical WWW at university in 1993 with the release of NCSA Mosaic 0.9f, this article is dated 1991 which is the same year that HTTP 0.9 was released, so it's possible that even this shitrag of a newspaper got a small technical detail right.

[–]lastmanonreddit 0 points1 point ago

no satire my friend. This rag is 'the sun' newspaper from the UK.

[–]Midonsmyr 4 points5 points ago

I'm confused, the term ".com" parodied by the Author's name 'Dot Comme' shouldn't have been a possible reference if the internet wasn't even an established concept at the time.

And furthermore from the other thread on this topic that I saw earlier, it's apparently the front page of The Sun. When clearly a news item on something still obscure to most, and its likelihood to fail is more like material for a page nobody ever reads, not the front page.

But it is the Sun I guess. What's that thingy where satire resembles truth too closely to distinguish which is which?

[–]jungletek 0 points1 point ago

Dude, TLD's and DNS existed before the WWW.

You think people just typed IP addresses all day?

See here for DNS, and here for the WWW.

[–]roguevalley 0 points1 point ago

But they weren't in the public consciousness. Nor was .com as dominant as a TLD. For these reasons, a name like Dot Comme would have been pointless.

[–]skepticofskeptics 10 points11 points ago

I have a hunch this isn't real.

[–]mishugashu 4 points5 points ago

It's real, but it's 21 years old and from an English tabloid (The Sun).

[–]roguevalley 0 points1 point ago

citation needed

[–]Jonesty 3 points4 points ago

[–]Gawaintheovensafetin 4 points5 points ago

It's fake

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[–]roguevalley 1 point2 points ago

prove it.

[–]duudass 0 points1 point ago

it'll never take off - who'd use it anyway? i wouldn't.

[–]mayhem51 1 point2 points ago

Just like that Rock N Roll crap that my parents said would never last. ;p

[–]artifex-swe 0 points1 point ago

He resembles Julian Assange.

[–]C_M_O_TDibbler -1 points0 points ago

are you calling him a rapist?

[–]jamessnow 1 point2 points ago

Gopher still rules!

[–]ChestyLaRou 0 points1 point ago

I think I'm gonna cry when this guy passes away... not sure why I'm thinking about that though...

[–]mrdoink20 0 points1 point ago

Internet? Yeah it's the inner netting they invented to line swim trunks. It provides a comforting snugness.

[–]kermth 1 point2 points ago

"Internet"

[–]f0rcedinducti0n 0 points1 point ago

irony is that they used a camera to make a screenshot

[–]IamGrimReefer 0 points1 point ago

this is still on the front page....have some self-respect

[–]flantaclause 0 points1 point ago

wow, Al Gore looked really different before he changed his name and invented the internet....

[–]samsaBEAR 0 points1 point ago

I don't know guys, I don't think the "internet" will ever take off

[–]ucccft -1 points0 points ago

OH NO.. Here we go again! The Britshit press claiming another grand lie. The Britshits copy everything and then claim it. The is nothing what so ever in the Britshit Museum that's British. NOTHING! ALL STOLON from many poor countries. The Britshit had nothing what so ever to do with the internet or WWW! NOTHING!

[–]theoldpretender 1 point2 points ago

My guess is one of those onion articles written years after the fact. like when the did the "holy fucking shit, a man walked on the fucking moon!" article.