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The Advent Of Www...first World Website? 20yrs Old by kama1210: 1:17pm On May 12, 2013 |
I used to think that websit technologies had been there for hundreds of years,,,,but i never knew our last born is almost older to www invention. Btw, someone invented email, another website...i still believe Nigerian should research into another... Even if you can't name the inventor of the World Wide Web ( It's Tim Berners-Lee!), you'll probably want to celebrate one of the information network's most important milestones. On August 6, 1991 -- 21 years ago -- Berners-Lee published the world's first website from a lab in the Swiss Alps. So Happy 21st Birthday, WWW! Have a drink on us. As our friends over at HuffPost UK point out, the world's first website can still be visited today, more than two decades after its creation. The site, originally found at the clunky URL "http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/ TheProject.html," was updated frequently after launching; therefore, images of its earliest versions were never saved. Nevertheless, a later copy from 1992 is still preserved and welcoming visitors. The bare-bones website was created, appropriately, to explain the World Wide Web to newcomers. "The WorldWideWeb (W3) is a wide-area hypermedia information retrieval initiative aiming to give universal access to a large universe of documents," the site reads, going on to explain how others can create their own webpages. You can see what the site looks like below (or just click the link here). Berners-Lee first proposed his idea for a worldwide network of computers sharing information in 1989, while he was working at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva, Switzerland. According CERN's history of the first website, it was written on a NeXT computer (pictured below), made by the company Steve Jobs founded after his ouster from Apple back in 1985. The NeXT computer used by Tim Berners- Lee in 1990 to create the world's first website. Berners-Lee's site went live in 1991, and was accessed by a decidedly small audience of fellow CERN researchers. It wasn't until 1993, when web browser Mosaic was released, that the Web took off, as Wired explained last year. During the opening ceremony of the 2012 Olympics, the inventor of the World Wide Web was honored with a musical number and an appearance in London's Olympic Stadium . However, Meredith Viera, commentating for NBC in the U.S., admitted she didn't know who the British Internet pioneer was. (Kind of embarrassing, no?) But maybe she'll take a moment to honor the first website, now that she knows. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee info.cern.ch/ |
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