Link:The World's first website on the Internet.
Originally created by CERN in 1992, the world’s first website invokes a time long past when pages were just plain text on a white background. There are no advertisements, no pictures, and certainly no video. It’s an entirely utilitarian…
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From the archive: Originally shared on 2013-05-03 through mrfiifiappiah. Language, links, and opinions reflect their original context.
Originally created by CERN in 1992, the world’s first website invokes a time long past when pages were just plain text on a white background. There are no advertisements, no pictures, and certainly no video. It’s an entirely utilitarian site rendered in Times New Roman, the most default of fonts.
The meat of the site is absolutely appropriate for its time period. Primarily, it exists to offer information about the World Wide Web. There are also links to the latest browsers that you’ve never heard of, the full text of The Bible, a Campaign 1992 archive, and US weather by state.
My own favorite part of the site is the “How can I help?” section, showing how you can get involved in building the Internet by supplying data or programming muscle. After all, Amazon.com isn’t going to build itself.
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