CERN dusts off first URL in celebration of 20 years of WWW
Contributed by: Email on 04/30/2013 07:13 AM
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Mashable notes that the first website was actually launched in 1991, but it was on April 30, 1993 when CERN made the WWW technology available on a royalty-free basis.
In 1993 the WWW team wrote an advert for the web that appeared in Tagung Deutsches ForschungsNetz, and it read:
"To find out about WWW: telnet info.cern.ch [a command you would type into your network-enabled computer] This will give you the very basic line-mode interface. Don't be disappointed: use it to find out how to install it or more advanced graphical interface browsers on your local system."
So set aside about 5 minutes, if you can spare it, and check out the entire World Wide Web from way back when. It is awesome to think that this was start of what has become a symbiotic part of our existence.
Happy 20 years!
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