Objectives
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Document and share the line-mode browser experience
The line-mode browser was a text-based browser that could be used by simple terminals: recreate the experience of using it
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Document and share the NeXT browser / editor experience
The first browser built by Tim Berners-Lee was far from primitive: enable people to experience it
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Preserve the data on the NeXT machines
Preserve the ones and zeros on the first web server(s) used by Tim Berners-Lee
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Provide an archive of documentation related to the birth of the web
Create a repository for important documentation and link to existing sources
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Restore first URL
Restore the files that existed at the first URL back to their earliest possible iterations
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Restore IP addresses and machine names
Where possible, the original IP addresses and machine names mentioned in documentation should be restored
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Restore original protocols to info.cern.ch
The first web server originally ran Telnet and gopher: restore these
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Take steps to preserve the NeXT hardware
Document the machine configurations, service hardware, source spare NeXTs