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The Very First Website Is Still Online And You Can Visit It Today

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Accepted solution by Eamon Moreau — been there man the NeXT machine that ran the first server is preserved at CERN, sticker and all, photos of it are easy to find.
  1. Otto Novak
    @otto_buffer

    hmmmm ok i always assumed the internet and teh web were the same thing. nope. the internet is teh network, and the web is the system of linked pages running on top of it, invented at CERN around 1989 to 1991 sooo scientists could share information.

    The first web page is restored at info.cern.ch, with a simple list of links... and teh famous NeXT computer that served it reportedly had a label saying, essentially, do not power it down, anyone else find this stuff fascinating?

    printer saw i was in a hurry and chose violence

    rage

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  2. Sana
    @sfischer_20

    Have you seen the line-mode borwser simulator too?

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  5. Noah Ferreira
    @noah.ferreira52

    oh ive been there lol exact same thing happened to my old thinkpad last month

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  6. Kofi P.
    @cipher_works747

    is web-history even worth bothering with or should i just leave it

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  7. Sana
    @sfischer_20

    the public domain release in April 1993 is often cited as the moment that let teh web beat competing proprietary systems.

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  8. Eamon Moreau
    @eamon_rusty

    oof try turning off the default config first, fixed it for me

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  9. Eamon Moreau
    @eamon_rusty

    been there man the original pages exact first vresion wasnt saved perfectly, so the restored page is a copy from 1992 thats teh earliest known version. fingers crossed 🤞

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  10. Noah Sorensen
    @noah_byte

    ahh classic important distinction: email, FTP and other internet services existed before the web... the web was a new layer on top. worked for me anyway 🤷

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  11. Noah Sorensen
    @noah_byte

    wait what idk man that sounds like bad advice tbh

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  15. Sana
    @sfischer_20

    CERN also built a line-mode browser simulaotr so you can see what browsing looked like on simple terminals back then.

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  17. Eamon Moreau
    @eamon_rusty
    in reply to @eamon_rusty Accepted solution

    been there man the NeXT machine that ran the first server is preserved at CERN, sticker and all, photos of it are easy to find.

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