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FLASHBACK: This Is What The First-Ever Website Looked Like

There are millions of web pages now, but none of them existed 20 years ago.

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The first web page went live on August 6, 1991.  It was dedicated to information on the World Wide Web project and was made by Tim Berners-Lee. It ran on a NeXT computer at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, CERN.

The first web page address was http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html.

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Tim Berners-Lee created the first web browser and World Wide Web. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tim_Berners-Lee_April_2009.jpg">Wikipedia</a>

It outlined how to create Web pages and explained more about hypertext.

Here's what it looked like in 1992 (below). No screenshots were taken of the site before then.

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For more information on the early Internet and how it all works, check out What The Heck Is The Internet >>

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There are no screenshots of the original page, but this is the closest copy, taken in 1992. info.cern.ch
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