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In 1996 Demon offered its customers
the chance to have their very own personal web pages - a whole five megabytes.
It's one thing to be given web space, but quite another
thing to put anything useful on it - especially when you have no pressing
need to publish anything for global public consumption.
However, 5M was not to be ignored, so http://www.idiom.demon.co.uk/index.htm,
was created - a single web page, with no links and very little content.
It just contained the idiom logo, a promise that it
would never have a web page counter and an indication that it was created
on an Acorn RiscPC.
There was a deliberate choice not to have any hyperlinks
on the page. After all, what use is a page with sparse content and a set
of hyperlinks? Why publish a page whose only function is to immediately
suggest to the reader that they look elsewhere?
This lack of hyperlinks gave the site the purpose
that it craved. It set it apart.
Surely, anyone visiting the page could consider themselves
to have reached a limit - perhaps even an end. For, with no more links
the site was a true boundary of the World Wide Web.
Hence the proud claim, during this phase, that http://www.idiom.demon.co.uk/
was 'The End of The Internet'.
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