what did the early seed funds for the web look like? was it meant for salaries, infrastructure, or something else?
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I’d need to ask the man (trying to get him to join Nostr. He is curious) . I know it was around 10-15k. Office space for Tim, some salary and a NexT station is all I know.
The person who received the proposal had just been promoted to head his own team. Tim was sending the proposal around to a few heads and he took the bait.
wow, i’d love to hear more about that time. hopefully he’ll try nostr! 🤞
He does not like talking about the birth of the web much these days. He felt betrayed after Tim accidentally lost the archive (oops) rebuilt everything by himself to the best of his knowledge, left and then claimed nobody at CERN helped him. They still communicate, but once in a blue moon.
He’s more focused on his weird particle physics ideas and the censorship it has received in the past (arXiv at the request of CERN, supposedly). I think the interest for Nostr comes from there.
Web proposal was around 1989 I think…
I guess someone needs to write at least an article bout it.