The folks at CERN, the organization responsible for devising the fundamental
web standards, are celebrating World Wide Web's 20th birthday by bringing back
the first ever website to its original URL.
Although the first website was launched in 1991, it was on April 30,
1993 when CERN made the WWW technology available on a royalty-free basis.
The website, obviously very scarce by today's standards, contains only
text explaining some of the basics of the World Wide Web. It was originally
available at this address —http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html — but
for many years that URL has been redirecting to http://info.cern.ch.
Now, CERN has dug up a 1992 copy of
the site — the earliest it could find — and put it back online at its original
address.
CERN employees will keep trying to find an earlier copy; in the
meantime, you can browse through it and see what the World Wide Web (all of it)
was like in 1992
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