20 Years Ago Today: The First Website Is Published

**katherine** · 08-07-2011, 09:45 AM

20 Years Ago Today: The First Website Is Published

It was August 6, 1991, at a CERN facility in the Swiss Alps, when 36-year-old physicist Tim Berners-Lee published the first-ever website. It was, not surprisingly, a pretty basic one — according to CERN:

Info.cern.ch was the address of the world’s first-ever web site and web server, running on a NeXT computer at CERN. The first web page address was http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html, which centred on information regarding the WWW project. Visitors could learn more about hypertext, technical details for creating their own webpage, and even an explanation on how to search the Web for information.

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http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2011/08...-web-20-years/

**ngconcepts** · 08-07-2011, 10:28 AM

Amazing! only 20 yrs has gone by. Imagine how things will be in another 20 yrs. Happy Birthday HTML!

**shellyboy911** · 08-07-2011, 12:25 PM

Nice share, watch out the internet is almost at the drinking age!

**draggar** · 08-07-2011, 03:30 PM

Around that time a friend of mine (programming guru) was trying to work on a "universal" programming language - one that could be read by PC and Apple. I guess this guy beat him to it with HTML.

When you look at these two sites, you really have to wonder how far back we've done before we've come forward.

On a side note, I do miss Telnet, PINE, Gopher, Usenet, etc. (when the users were mature).

**naster** · 08-11-2011, 02:00 PM

super!@@@

**Aristo** · 08-14-2011, 02:03 PM

wow thanks for the info. I had no idea!

**spacey** · 08-18-2011, 07:59 AM

look at tv over the last 50+ years ....... just now becoming connected .......one day everything will called a 'channel'

**draggar** · 08-18-2011, 08:20 AM

Originally Posted by spacey

look at tv over the last 50+ years ....... just now becoming connected .......one day everything will called a 'channel'

WebTV has been around since the early 1990's (commercially available to the public for 15 years now).

**spacey** · 08-18-2011, 08:18 PM

Originally Posted by draggar

WebTV has been around since the early 1990's (commercially available to the public for 15 years now).

I was refering to the fact it is only now that the critical mass are embracing internet tv and being offered this format of the net in a television set, there is a lot of advertising for internet connected tvs here in Australia, the gap between the internet/websites/television is closing all the time

**DaddyHalbucks** · 08-21-2011, 04:07 PM

Originally Posted by spacey

I was refering to the fact it is only now that the critical mass are embracing internet tv and being offered this format of the net in a television set, there is a lot of advertising for internet connected tvs here in Australia, the gap between the internet/websites/television is closing all the time

It's called convergence..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Converg...ommunications)

**Bob** · 08-21-2011, 07:33 PM

Originally Posted by draggar

On a side note, I do miss Telnet, PINE, Gopher, Usenet, etc. (when the users were mature).

You and me both. I remember the good old days when the internet was without spam. I think I received my first spam email in around 1994, after using the internet for 6 years... Ahhhh, the good old days.

You remember Bitnet and Relay???