The Worlds first ever Website
17th Aug 2007
We decided our first article to be published on Which Website will be about Tim Berners-Lee and the proposal he submitted to his boss in 1989.
Sir Tim Berners-Lee as he is now known created the first website which explained what the Web was, how to own a browser, and how to setup a web server. The world first ever website was Info.cern.ch and the worlds first ever server running the website was a NeXT computer at CERN.
The first ever website address which centred on the project at the time was http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html, Berners-Lees goal was free access to the internet and to his delight this was achieved.
“When I invented the Web, I thought of it as an infrastructure; I designed the Web as a foundation for many things. In 1989, at the time before the Web, I wrote a memo explaining what it would be like to have the Web. I mentioned the hypertext system, the World Wide Web if you like, as a method to add and edit data. My perception was that I wanted all the information in CERN’s network to be available easily. I wanted to develop the tools to allow people to collaboratively build and use information. I wanted people to be able to design software and specific experiments, by using something together in different aspects,” said Tim Berners-Lee.
In 1991 servers began to pop up in other institutions in Europe and in December 1991, the first server outside the continent was installed in the US SLAC (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center).
Today there are nearly 80-83 million websites online with hundreds of millions of users, nowadays if households want a computer its not to compute but to go on the web
Things have moved on from the days of 1989 as many of us log onto the internet to socialise, shop, bank, etc...
A bit about Sir Tim Berners-Lee:
Born on June 8th 1965
Born in London, England, the son of Conway Berners-Lee and Mary Lee Woods, his parents were both mathematicians.
Berners-Lee attended Sheen Mount Primary School (which has dedicated a new hall in his honour) before moving on to study his O-Levels and A-Levels at Emanuel School in Wandsworth.
Sir Timothy Berners-Lee is the director of the World Wide Web Consortium (which oversees its continued development).
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