Today
is the 21st Birthday of the first website. On 6 August 1991 the first website info.cern.ch
- went live. It was created by Tim Berners-Lee, a physicist
at CERN (the European organisation for nuclear research) to demonstrate the potential
of the World Wide Web. It contained
information about hypertext, technical details for creating a webpage, and an
explanation of how to search the Web for information.
With
those at CERN being the only people who actually had web browser software, the
rest of the world remained mostly ignorant to what had just happened. It wasn’t until 1993 that more websites
started appearing. Even then most of the
general public still had no idea that the Internet even existed.
Have a laugh at this segment from the US Today show from
1994 – there’s a bit of confusion about the internet and the @ symbol.
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