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Surprisingly entertaining video. It was on a workstation similar to this one that I first used the Mosaic web browser circa 1993. Strangely, the first web site I visited featured a picture of Al Gore (not making this up) then US VP. I cannot find a reference to that web site anywhere or what content it may have contained. Does anyone else remember this?

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It might've been the original whitehouse.gov, which was a fairly early Web server (before they were called "sites").

This archive is from later (IIRC, HTML table layout wasn't yet used in 1993): https://clintonwhitehouse5.archives.gov/

Reportedly, whitehouse.gov was implemented in Common Lisp. (This was before the dotcom gold rush, so a lot of Web stuff was done by fringe Internet/computer uber-nerds -- mostly "this is interesting", and not usually "this pays money".)

> whitehouse.gov

Not all. The publications distribution feature was implement in Common Lisp.

> so a lot of Web stuff was done by fringe Internet/computer uber-nerds

That part was actually done by a team from MIT.

A lot of my early web projects were written in C. Everyone else seemed to be using perl. Doing a lot of string stuff in C was annoying.

In Perl it was less annoying, but I agree - C doesn’t really have strings in any convenient sense.

No TCL/Tk?

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