I fondly remember my immediate reaction when I saw that first webpage:
"Why would anyone use this when there are perfectly good gopher servers out there?"
quotingThe very first website is 35 years old today, and you can still visit it at http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html!
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"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 nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqv0lhpftmk954vj8dpfxqhcdep6j39danul9ckkpnrfx4fngs98hsg0l6lu (nprofile…l6lu)."
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
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