1/ 🧵 The first website ever created is still online. It was published on August 6, 1991, by Tim Berners-Lee.
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1/ 🧵 The first website ever created is still online. It was published on August 6, 1991, by Tim Berners-Lee.
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6/ 🧵 You can still view a copy of this historic first webpage at http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html.
5/ 🧵 The original URL was
info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html
. While the original page is no longer active at that exact address, CERN has maintained an archive of the site.4/ 🧵 It contained basic information about hypertext, technical details for creating web pages, and links to other pages.
3/ 🧵 The site's purpose was to explain the concept of the World Wide Web and how it could be used to share information globally.
2/ 🧵 This website was published on August 6, 1991, while Berners-Lee was working at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) in Switzerland.