This Sunday marked 25 years since the British Tim Berners-Lee created the world's first website. The event marked the start of the World Wide Web project.
Pessoa wrote: God wills, man dreams, the work is born. This story begins like this, with an idea from the British physicist and computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee. We cannot guarantee that God willed it, but the work was indeed born. Berners-Lee is considered the father of the World Wide Web (WWW), the global computer network that allows you, at this very moment, to be browsing Observador.
The world's first website was launched on 20 December 1990 and turned 25 this Sunday. It was set up on a NeXT computer at CERN. Here is the original address:
http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html
Yes, if you follow the link you can still browse one of the latest versions of the site, which is not exactly faithful to the one presented 25 years ago. According to CERN, the original site contained information about the project and other hypertext-related content, technical instructions on how to create a website and, of course, an explanation of how to search the internet… even though, at the time, there was not the vast amount of information that exists today.
Around Christmas 1990, Tim Berners-Lee had already built the foundations of the WWW and created the first browser, originally named WorldWideWeb. Although the page was set up in December, it was only made public almost a year later, in August 1991, when Berners-Lee spread the WWW project summary across a few enthusiast groups. At the same time, the internet was growing at an ever-increasing pace (confusion is common, but the World Wide Web is not the same as the internet).
The original server — a NeXTcube — is part of the Microcosm exhibition at CERN. Still stuck to it is the notice “This machine is a server. DO NOT POWER IT DOWN!!”, handwritten in red marker.
A quarter of a century later, where is Tim Berners-Lee? The creator of this global network was in Lisbon this month for the conference The Unknown: 100 years from now, at the Champalimaud Foundation. Currently, he leads the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the institution he created in October 1994. He remains connected to the WWW, the project he created that became one of the most important tools of the internet.
SOURCE: Observador
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