The world's first website went online 25 years ago today

Telegraph UK ^ | August 6, 2016 | By Cara McGoogan

[Swordmaker]

Today marks the 25 anniversary of Sir Tim Berners-Lee launching the first website CREDIT: AP

On this day 25 years ago the world's first website went live to the public. The site, created by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, was a basic text page with hyperlinked words that connected to other pages.

Berners-Lee used the public launch to outline his plan for the service, which would come to dominate life in the twenty-first century.

"The WWW project merges the techniques of information retrieval and hypertext to make an easy but powerful global information system," said Berners-Lee on the world's first public website. "The project started with the philosophy that much academic information should be freely available to anyone."

Berners-Lee wanted the World Wide Web to be a place where people could share information across the world through documents and links navigated with a simple search function.

[dfwgator]

I would have bet a dollar it would have been a porn site.

[SoFloFreeper]

is it still on line?

[CaptainK]

That was the second online site.

[Cementjungle]

This was it: http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html

[Enchante]

I believe this is it, the very first website:

http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html

[Swordmaker]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to the WORLD WIDE WEB! Today is the 25th Anniversary of the posting of the very first web page ever posted on the World Wide Web. 25 years ago today, Tim Berners Lee posted a modest interactive page with hypertext on his NeXT (a Steve Jobs creation) at CERN and made it available to anyone who wished to connect to it. This "page" was the very first publicly available link in what was to become the World Wide Web that would be called the Internet. That page is still available here.

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[mainestategop]

Wow! BUMP!

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

Lies lies lies. Al Gore invented the internet.

[Swordmaker]

is it still on line?

YUP!

The First WWW Web Page Ever.

[MUDDOG]

And Barry Ubama in the WH.

We’re all WHAT advanced??

[Enchante]

11 internet and web firsts

[CopperTop]

HTML Killed the Atari star?

The World Wide Web is one of the few things that takes longer to say in it's abbreviated form, no? d;^)

[RummyChick]

25 years later the net could take down a seemingly Invincible potus candidate
..still waiting for more leaks

[Swordmaker]

The NeXT Cube similar to that which the WWW was created on.

[Fiddlstix]

I remember years ago logging on to CERN website and their main page logo proclaimed 'Home Of The World Wide Web'.
I made my first web page back in early 1993. It wasn't much to look at though. lol.
I would go to the CERN site for HTML info back then.

[Paladin2]

Looks very modern.

[Donglalinger]

I used to get online with my Commodore 64 long before that.

[dp0622]

lol. that was the second one.

It took me forever to understand what “the information highway” was.

IQs are worthless.

Foresight and common sense are everything. I’m lacking in both :)

[Dilbert San Diego]

I’ve heard that the world wide web is actually just one part of the internet. People used these terms interchangeably, but , I’ve heard that the web is just one part of the internet structure.