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The Internet is turning 55 years old: Meet the first ever website in history
Can you imagine a world without the internet? 55 years ago, the World Wide Web went online for the first time, and the world was never the same.
The Internet has completely changed the way we understand the world and our society. Connecting with other people has never been so easy and quick, but all this had a beginning that, on October 29, 2024, marks 55 years of service. It was in the United States in a data exchange between two computers located at the University of California in Los Angeles, popularly known as UCLA, and the Stanford Research Institute. This started ARPANET, the precursor of what we all know today as the Internet, but what was the first web page of all?
The first website in history
It is not actually as old as the Internet, but the first web page that emerged on the Internet is already 34 years old. It was developed in 1990 and can still be visited today. Who owns it then? That would be CERN, the European Council for Nuclear Research located in the Swiss town of Geneva. A European research organization that has been in the news regularly over the years, and in this sense has a piece of enormous historical importance in something as prominent in our society as the Internet.
The website in question is http://info.cern.ch/ and it was possible thanks to the creator of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee. A revolutionary invention that was implemented at CERN, developing the NeXTcube computer that allowed the web to be launched in December 1990 through two computers in the laboratory itself.
A very different place from what the Internet is today
The first website in history has absolutely nothing to do with what the web is today. This only showed texts, hyperlinks, and multiple menus. There were no colors, no images, nor any type of graphics or animation. What it did provide was the objective with which Berners-Lee created the World Wide Web, the possibility of gathering information in order to preserve it and give universal access to a large number of documents.
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