Twenty-five years ago,
the world's very first website debuted.
Called Tim Berners-Lee's
World Wide Web, the site went online at CERN on December 20, 1990.As Engadget
noted, this wasn’t the date the website went public (that happened several
months later on August 6, 1991), but the moment still marked an important
milestone in information network history.
“It's safe to say that
this plain page laid the groundwork for much of the Internet as you know it --
even now, you probably know one or two people who still think the Web is
the Internet,” the news outlet wrote.
A 1992 version of the
World Wide Web (screenshot above) is still online. As CERN explained, it was a
bare-bones explainer of the “basic features of the web; how to access other
people's documents and how to set up your own server.” The Web was invented in
1989 by Berners-Lee, a British scientist.
WWW is closely-linked
to the Internet, though it's not at all the same thing. As BBC
explained: “The Internet is a huge network of computers all connected
together. The World Wide Web is a collection of webpages found on this network
of computers. Your web browser uses the Internet to access the Web.”
Happy 25th birthday,
World Wide Web!
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