The first-ever web page is still up at its original URL

Cern — Usenet ^ | August 6, 1991 | Tim Berners-Lee

[Swordmaker]

This is literally the start of the World Wide Web. This is Tim Berners-Lee's very first Web Page. The FIRST Web Page ever. . . the literal starting point of the Internet.

It still exists as Tim Berners-Lee wrote it. On August 6, 1991, Tim Berners-Lee posted in the Usenet group alt.hypertext about a project he was working on called the World Wide Web--or, as he referred to it, "W3," a shorthand that surprisingly never caught on. The first webpage is still there at its original address on the CERN high-energy physics lab's site, substantially unchanged--no background, no graphics, just plain text and some links to other information about the nascent Web.

The Project: World Wide Web

[Billthedrill]

Ridiculous. It’ll never catch on. BTT

[headstamp 2]

You can tell it was the first web page. Look for the tail fins.

[BullDog108]

I remember that year. I was living in the basement of Evans Hall at Cal Berkeley. I started publishing my own sites on their servers using pico & HTML 1.0

Little did I know how it would all end up....

[ClearCase_guy]

Wow! That from before they invented porn!

[EternalVigilance]

just plain text and some links to other information about the nascent Web.

How can it have links to other information if it was the only webpage there was?

:-)

[21twelve]

“Getting the code by anonymous FTP , etc.”

Interesting last line. I wonder if the hackers that call themselves “Anonymous” got their name from this?

[Swordmaker]

There are jokes about reaching the end of the Internet, but did you know there REALLY is a START of the Internet? Yes, there really is a beginning, and this is it. The very first Internet webpage, created by Tim Berners-Lee on August 6, 1991, in its basic, no-frills plain text! It still exists at its original URL at CERN and includes hyper links to other webpages Berners-Lee created to show what the nascent World Wide Web he envisioned could do. This is HISTORY! -- PING!

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Tim Berners-Lee's NeXT Computer
on which the World Wide Web was created
Ping!

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[JRandomFreeper]

Or Catz.

/johnny

[21twelve]

Further in there is project Guttenburg - where they will publish two books a month!

[timestax]

bttt

[rwh]

They thought it was going to be called the W3. Ha!

[Vendome]

Abe Lincoln warned the Internet would be a massive haystack of crackpot theories, deniers of facts and hyperbole from the deck of The Titanic on April 16, 1865...

[Swordmaker]

How can it have links to other information if it was the only webpage there was? :-)

Because he created them in preparation to posting this so there was something to link to. . . but this was the first page one could connect directly to and then link to others.

[21twelve]

I clicked on the 1991 list of books. It was taking too long. They must still be on dial-up. Back in college (1982) we thought it was great to have the gizmo where we could put the handset of the telephone in it and get a connection to our work on the school’s mainframe. (It sure beat having to use the punch cards that we first learned on!)

[EternalVigilance]

Yeah, of course.

That’s awesome. Thanks for sharing this.

[Leaning Right]

Swordmaker, there is something wrong here. I carefully checked the link. There is not one mention anywhere of Al Gore, the acknowledged inventor of the Internet.

[Norm Lenhart]

Hell no You’d be surprised what you can make with X’s and O’s in a text editor ;)

[Greetings_Puny_Humans]

Just a fad. It’ll pass.

[Norm Lenhart]

Exxon had it wiped from the web. Thats why Hillary is having them investigated.