The World Wide Web project - The world's first URL is still active
In 2013, a team at CERN, where the W3 originated, published the earliest version of the world's first website they could find. Here, they encourage you to browse the origins of the web:
(Apr 29, 2013; CERN )
When the first website was born, it was probably quite lonely. And with few people having access to browsers - or to web servers so that they could in turn publish their own content - it must have taken a visionary leap of faith at the time to see why it was so exciting. The early WWW team, led by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN, had such vision and belief. The fact that they called their technology the World Wide Web hints at the fact that they knew they had something special, something big.
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We just put the files back online, using the archive that is hosted on the W3C site. This is a 1992 copy of the first website. This may be the earliest copy that we can find, but we're going to keep looking for earlier ones.
Read the rest at CERN : First URL active once more
I was excited recently when I found out that what was left of the world's first website (as of 1992) is still active. It's fun to explore what's been recreated by CERN for archival purposes.
I hope other information and internet enthusiasts enjoy this too!
Very cool! I'm pretty sure I remember visiting this site back in the days of archie, gopher, kermit, and compiling your own NCSA Mosaic. I think that blockchain today is sort-of in that same, "what do I want to be when I grow up?" phase of technology...
Update: archie, gopher, kermit, and WAIS! How could I forget WAIS?