World’s First Webpage
I think most of the time we were talking about the design stuffs. So its better to have a light deviation from the topic. I thought it will really make you enjoy if I show you the world’s first webpage. This is the era of Web 2, and we are about to leave the it soon. So I thought if I bring you the World’s first webpage, you can realize the actual growth of our own Internet. We are now designing corporate level clean professional webpages for our clients. So just think of the First webpage
Below is a screenshot of the website. Click on the image to go to the live site.
Have you ever heard about CERN ? Its Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire. And the worlds first website was made by them on 6 August 1991. The address was “Info.cern.ch“, 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. That page mainly contained tutorial for newbie’s on creating hyperlinks, setting up their own websites and doing a search on web and so. Unfortunately, I cant show you how the page looked in the past (they updated it several times)
I hope this will serve you as a historical evidence about the origin of websites, since we are mostly dealing with webpages
Just imagine how far we had developed in terms of webpages and web development. Feel free to express your thoughts as comments.
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5 Responses
1.13.2010
Happy to know the roots!
1.13.2010
Here you can check archives of this page : http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html
Sadly, there is no archives before 1998…
1.14.2010
wow !! happy to know !!!
4.30.2010
Thanks for informing us really very great….
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4.30.2010
I got a little frustrated. After reading the first part of the text and looking to the picture, I kinda OMG’ed about the layout. Thought it was developed back in 90 too…
Great post, BTW. Great piece of history.