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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forumsthe world's first web site is back online to commemorate the 20th anniversary...
...of the world wide web.
Twenty years ago today, the organization that created the World Wide Web made its underlying technology available to everyone on a royalty-free basis. To commemorate that occasion, the very first website is now back online at its original URL.
Physicist Tim Berners-Lee invented the Web in 1989 at CERN, the European nuclear research and particle physics laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland. CERN didn't try to keep the technology to itself. The Web became publicly accessible on Aug. 6, 1991, and "on 30 April 1993 CERN published a statement that made World Wide Web ('W3', or simply 'the web') technology available on a royalty-free basis," the organization wrote today. "By making the software required to run a web server freely available, along with a basic browser and a library of code, the web was allowed to flourish."
Snapshots of the original website were preserved, but not the site itself at its original URL, until now. "Although the NeXT machinethe original web serveris still at CERN, sadly the world's first website is no longer online at its original address," CERN wrote. CERN is now fixing that oversight, with the first site back online at http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html. Previously, that URL simply redirected to http://info.cern.ch. Here's what it looks like now:
Physicist Tim Berners-Lee invented the Web in 1989 at CERN, the European nuclear research and particle physics laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland. CERN didn't try to keep the technology to itself. The Web became publicly accessible on Aug. 6, 1991, and "on 30 April 1993 CERN published a statement that made World Wide Web ('W3', or simply 'the web') technology available on a royalty-free basis," the organization wrote today. "By making the software required to run a web server freely available, along with a basic browser and a library of code, the web was allowed to flourish."
Snapshots of the original website were preserved, but not the site itself at its original URL, until now. "Although the NeXT machinethe original web serveris still at CERN, sadly the world's first website is no longer online at its original address," CERN wrote. CERN is now fixing that oversight, with the first site back online at http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html. Previously, that URL simply redirected to http://info.cern.ch. Here's what it looks like now:
http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html
Looks just like Free Republic!
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the world's first web site is back online to commemorate the 20th anniversary... (Original Post)
mike_c
Apr 2013
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SheilaT
(23,156 posts)1. None of those links seem to connect to anything.
SwissTony
(2,560 posts)3. I suspect all those sites have long since disappeared - it was a while ago.
But it's great to see how things were - and to be glad they're no longer like that.
Luminous Animal
(27,310 posts)2. Dupe
Matariki
(18,775 posts)4. Twenty years. Amazing!
Feels like lifetimes.
Matariki
(18,775 posts)5. I've been working in this industry for 15+ of those 20 years.
It's simply amazing at how fast the technology changed. And how it feels like we've never been without the Web.