Aug 5, 2011

World Wide Web @ 20 : 20 years since first website launch

Imagine where would we be without Tim's invention?
At 2:56pm on 6 August, 1991, Tim Berners-Lee launched the very first website http://info.cern.ch/

A NeXT Computer was used by Berners-Lee as the world's first web server and also to write the first web browser, WorldWideWeb, in 1990. By Christmas 1990, Berners-Lee had built all the tools necessary for a working Web: the first web browser (which was a web editor as well); the first web server; and the first web pages, which described the project itself. On August 6, 1991, he posted a short summary of the World Wide Web project on the alt.hypertext newsgroup. 

This date also marked the debut of the Web as a publicly available service on the Internet. The first photo on the web was uploaded by Berners-Lee in 1992, an image of the CERN house band Les Horribles Cernettes.

alt.hypertext article on www contains :


http://groups.google.com/group/alt.hypertext/msg/395f282a67a1916c

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