Happy Birthday WWW! 25 years ago on August 6, 1991, the world's first website appeared from a laboratory in the Swiss Alps. The first page was created by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the father of the World Wide Web (WWW), and displayed information about the World Wide Web project.
The world's first website ran on a NeXT computer at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), and it still exists if anyone wants to visit it two decades after its creation.
The address of the first WWW website is located on a CERN domain and you can visit it from the following link:
https://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html.
World Wide Web
The WorldWideWeb (W3) is a wide-area hypermedia information retrieval initiative aiming to provide universal access to a large universe of documents.
Berners-Lee mentions the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) on the page and describes the way information and data travel between computer systems. HTML (HyperText Markup Language) is the language used to create the first web page.
The World Wide Web was written on a NeXT computer, the company that Steve Jobs founded when he was fired from Apple in 1985.
“We bought a cool machine, the NeXT computer,” Berners-Lee said two years ago during an interview at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
“NeXT was a machine by Steve Jobs, created when he was fired from Apple…. it had a very good environment for developers.”
The website went online to the public on August 6, 1991. At the time, Berners-Lee had a note on the front of the NeXT computer that stated:
“This machine is a server. DO NOT shut it down.”.
Let us mention that when Berners-Lee created the World Wide Web, his idea was simply to create a tool for scientists where they could easily find and share information.
The Web has since become the world's most powerful means of transmitting information, for knowledge, communications, commerce, and every other use you can imagine.
Last month, Berners-Lee, now 61, expressed regret over his invention, saying the Internet has now become “the world’s largest surveillance network.”
