I Googled for the lyrics to “You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch” and up came [this ancient HTML document from the days of Web 2.0](https://stuff.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/poetry/poems/meanGrinch.html).
I’ve noticed that Google will often point me to these very old, rudimentary webpages that are 20 years old or so, and often hosted at American universities like MIT.
So my question is, why do these websites exist in the first place, and why do they still exist?
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Even before all this…the internet was a result of a DARPA project to ensure that communications between military p, government, and educational institutions could continue in times of war and other disasters by distributing the hosts across the country. The first sites were .mil, .gov, and .edu in large majority. The hosts were Unix based, and communication occurred with telnet, ftp, and the like. Communication between the hosts was via modem, or, if you were lucky, dedicated T1 lines, ISDN, etc.
Later on, GUI and WYSIWYG became popular as the masses embraced the technology. With that came Netscape, explorer, etc, to display HTML-based information in a more aesthetically pleasing way than just a stream of ASCII characters in text form.
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