<![CDATA[The very first website is 35 years old today, and you can still visit it at http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html!]]>The very first website is 35 years old today, and you can still visit it at http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html!

"On August 6, 1991, the first website was introduced to the world. [It] contained information about the World Wide Web Project. It launched at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, CERN, where it was created by British computer scientist @timbl."

Happy birthday, web!

Via https://www.npr.org/2021/08/06/1025554426/a-look-back-at-the-very-first-website-ever-launched-30-years-later

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/topic/e9c113f9-b3d2-40f4-a2ed-db4a94fd8077/the-very-first-website-is-35-years-old-today-and-you-can-still-visit-it-at-http-info.cern.ch-hypertext-www-theproject.htmlRSS for NodeSat, 08 Aug 2026 10:36:37 GMTThu, 06 Aug 2026 11:46:27 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to The very first website is 35 years old today, and you can still visit it at http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html! on Fri, 07 Aug 2026 16:11:53 GMT]]>@stefan @timbl so many dead links

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.mit.edu/users/amsomniac/statuses/117055102237517607https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.mit.edu/users/amsomniac/statuses/117055102237517607Fri, 07 Aug 2026 16:11:53 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to The very first website is 35 years old today, and you can still visit it at http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html! on Fri, 07 Aug 2026 16:10:37 GMT]]>@stefan @timbl I like that in 35 years nobody has fixed the spacing in the "subjects" link

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/aburka/statuses/117055097225317933https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/aburka/statuses/117055097225317933Fri, 07 Aug 2026 16:10:37 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to The very first website is 35 years old today, and you can still visit it at http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html! on Fri, 07 Aug 2026 15:13:24 GMT]]>@strangequark That's awesome!

Yeah, reminds me how the first message that was sent on ARPANET was the incomplete word "LOGIN".

"I certainly didn't [realize the significance of the moment] at that time. We were just trying to get it to work."

https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/115457378324250260

@timbl

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://stefanbohacek.online/users/stefan/statuses/117054872265945908https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://stefanbohacek.online/users/stefan/statuses/117054872265945908Fri, 07 Aug 2026 15:13:24 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to The very first website is 35 years old today, and you can still visit it at http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html! on Fri, 07 Aug 2026 15:04:53 GMT]]>@stefan When I was an undergraduate, one of my classmates came back from CERN having spent six months working on the World Wide Web. He showed us this thing called a web page that had, as I remember, a video of a girl skipping.

We were kind of interested but none of us had any inkling of the monster the web would become.

Now my office is in the same corridor as @timbl 's old office.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://dice.camp/users/strangequark/statuses/117054838751140100https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://dice.camp/users/strangequark/statuses/117054838751140100Fri, 07 Aug 2026 15:04:53 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to The very first website is 35 years old today, and you can still visit it at http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html! on Fri, 07 Aug 2026 12:50:37 GMT]]>@stefan @timbl

thanks, for your feedback. of course there are personal websites and blogs, a shrinking minority. - schade.

99% of the www ist advertisment and so on.

The fediverse is quit well, the ActivityPubProtocoll. I would like increase the Gemini-Protokoll, P2P, Panda2Panda for example.

I dream from a Internet for the poeple, not for profit.

How it's possible to build an internet in a social a techical way, where we leave the business apologists out of the picture?

regard tunda

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://layer8.space/users/tunda/statuses/117054310810443853https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://layer8.space/users/tunda/statuses/117054310810443853Fri, 07 Aug 2026 12:50:37 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to The very first website is 35 years old today, and you can still visit it at http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html! on Fri, 07 Aug 2026 12:28:31 GMT]]>@tunda I'll have to disagree. I won't argue that things aren't pretty dire. But we have the fediverse, and people are still making and maintaining personal websites and blogs.

The web is definitely not lost yet.

@timbl

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://stefanbohacek.online/users/stefan/statuses/117054223923710785https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://stefanbohacek.online/users/stefan/statuses/117054223923710785Fri, 07 Aug 2026 12:28:31 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to The very first website is 35 years old today, and you can still visit it at http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html! on Fri, 07 Aug 2026 08:42:06 GMT]]>@stefan @timbl

I'm sorry, but the decline of www is unstoppable.

www meant not world wide web, it means, world wide warehouse (shoping mall) nowaday.

It's not again the internet itself, just whole websites that builed to selling bullshit and cheer on capitalism.

regard tunda

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://layer8.space/users/tunda/statuses/117053333581181222https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://layer8.space/users/tunda/statuses/117053333581181222Fri, 07 Aug 2026 08:42:06 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to The very first website is 35 years old today, and you can still visit it at http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html! on Fri, 07 Aug 2026 08:31:43 GMT]]>@stefan @timbl Back when the web consisted of actual hypertext documents instead of style-over-substance walled castle 'websites', or worse, 'web applications'

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://micro.webgarden.click/users/lianna/statuses/01KZDNK0756VA49QBCYGRMDQPHhttps://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://micro.webgarden.click/users/lianna/statuses/01KZDNK0756VA49QBCYGRMDQPHFri, 07 Aug 2026 08:31:43 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to The very first website is 35 years old today, and you can still visit it at http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html! on Fri, 07 Aug 2026 08:26:56 GMT]]>@stefan @timbl 😢 links in the picture not working anymore if I click on them

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/Urticaceae/statuses/117053273933526922https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/Urticaceae/statuses/117053273933526922Fri, 07 Aug 2026 08:26:56 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to The very first website is 35 years old today, and you can still visit it at http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html! on Fri, 07 Aug 2026 08:09:30 GMT]]>@stefan @timbl

Congrats folks - thanks for sharing your brains....

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/Pettet8/statuses/117053205385148517https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/Pettet8/statuses/117053205385148517Fri, 07 Aug 2026 08:09:30 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to The very first website is 35 years old today, and you can still visit it at http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html! on Fri, 07 Aug 2026 04:31:56 GMT]]>@ricci @stefan

I just took a look at the archive folders for my 1st company's website (yeah, I'm a pack rat). The last edit date on oldest file I can see, a gif file, is August 6, 1996, 30 years old today!

I suspect the first iteration was older still, but I can't be sure.

My (only) sales and marketing guy was a bit of a tinkerer and got it started. I did some of the early work and pretty much took over maintenance when he left the following year.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mstdn.social/users/joeinwynnewood/statuses/117052349902327030https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mstdn.social/users/joeinwynnewood/statuses/117052349902327030Fri, 07 Aug 2026 04:31:56 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to The very first website is 35 years old today, and you can still visit it at http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html! on Fri, 07 Aug 2026 02:57:25 GMT]]>@kargas
> My CompSci prof was convinced that the Web was going to replace Gopher. I guess he was right.

The jury is still out; we'll see!

@pty @stefan @timbl

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mathstodon.xyz/users/dougmerritt/statuses/117051978230866043https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mathstodon.xyz/users/dougmerritt/statuses/117051978230866043Fri, 07 Aug 2026 02:57:25 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to The very first website is 35 years old today, and you can still visit it at http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html! on Fri, 07 Aug 2026 02:14:52 GMT]]>@stefan @timbl The 1992 time stamps on the files are still preserved too, wow!

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://dragonscave.space/users/MutedTrampet/statuses/117051810956726715https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://dragonscave.space/users/MutedTrampet/statuses/117051810956726715Fri, 07 Aug 2026 02:14:52 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to The very first website is 35 years old today, and you can still visit it at http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html! on Fri, 07 Aug 2026 01:34:14 GMT]]>@stefan @timbl and it had a FAQ! TIL

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.me.uk/users/fishidwardrobe/statuses/117051651192799277https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.me.uk/users/fishidwardrobe/statuses/117051651192799277Fri, 07 Aug 2026 01:34:14 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to The very first website is 35 years old today, and you can still visit it at http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html! on Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:59:38 GMT]]>@stefan The key that started a process that reached critical mass and multiplied ad infinitum.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/bouriquet/statuses/117051515077947066https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/bouriquet/statuses/117051515077947066Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:59:38 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to The very first website is 35 years old today, and you can still visit it at http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html! on Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:38:36 GMT]]>@mcourcel And then Al Gore went and invented it.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://allovertheplace.ca/users/Bruce/statuses/117051432415033687https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://allovertheplace.ca/users/Bruce/statuses/117051432415033687Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:38:36 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to The very first website is 35 years old today, and you can still visit it at http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html! on Thu, 06 Aug 2026 22:47:20 GMT]]>@stefan @timbl The web died the day the <marquee> tag was deprecated.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/De_Minimis/statuses/117050994874146299https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/De_Minimis/statuses/117050994874146299Thu, 06 Aug 2026 22:47:20 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to The very first website is 35 years old today, and you can still visit it at http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html! on Thu, 06 Aug 2026 20:07:21 GMT]]>@stefan @timbl Oh how we swooned. Limitless creative potential...

Now all we do is watch them swoon. Creatively limited potential, but it helps pass the time.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/ap/users/115951105757389140/statuses/117050365783854902https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/ap/users/115951105757389140/statuses/117050365783854902Thu, 06 Aug 2026 20:07:21 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to The very first website is 35 years old today, and you can still visit it at http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html! on Thu, 06 Aug 2026 19:05:57 GMT]]>@ymasumac

Humble beginnings. Very cool, thank you for sharing!

@timbl

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://stefanbohacek.online/users/stefan/statuses/117050124337570207https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://stefanbohacek.online/users/stefan/statuses/117050124337570207Thu, 06 Aug 2026 19:05:57 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to The very first website is 35 years old today, and you can still visit it at http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html! on Thu, 06 Aug 2026 18:45:57 GMT]]>@stefan @timbl We should have stopped at usenet news and Archie TBH.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/obscurestar/statuses/117050045697749447https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/obscurestar/statuses/117050045697749447Thu, 06 Aug 2026 18:45:57 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to The very first website is 35 years old today, and you can still visit it at http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html! on Thu, 06 Aug 2026 18:44:36 GMT]]>@stefan @timbl And here’s the computer! I was at CERN a couple weeks ago.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mstdn.social/users/ymasumac/statuses/117050040385729805https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mstdn.social/users/ymasumac/statuses/117050040385729805Thu, 06 Aug 2026 18:44:36 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to The very first website is 35 years old today, and you can still visit it at http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html! on Thu, 06 Aug 2026 18:22:40 GMT]]>@stefan @timbl
Porca vacca passato un altro anno in un baleno!

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://x.continuity.space/users/maramau/statuses/117049954151579456https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://x.continuity.space/users/maramau/statuses/117049954151579456Thu, 06 Aug 2026 18:22:40 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to The very first website is 35 years old today, and you can still visit it at http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html! on Thu, 06 Aug 2026 17:29:03 GMT]]>@reinouts @liaizon @stefan I love how in those days we were just like "sure, I can claim the concept of 'a rainforest' for my own personal website"

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://discuss.systems/users/ricci/statuses/117049743370709421https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://discuss.systems/users/ricci/statuses/117049743370709421Thu, 06 Aug 2026 17:29:03 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to The very first website is 35 years old today, and you can still visit it at http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html! on Thu, 06 Aug 2026 17:03:24 GMT]]>@liaizon @ricci @stefan Here's mine. It should have a green background, the yellow-on-white is a bit hard to read... https://web.archive.org/web/19990209110023/http://www.cs.vu.nl/%7Ermvschou/

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