The Big Bang of the World Wide Web

Today, I stumbled ober a YouTube Short about the first Internet pages, back in the 1990s. altendorfer.at appears at altendorfer.at 1998-02-10 16:33.

The Genesis of the Web

Let’s take a journey back in time to the very beginning of the World Wide Web. It all started at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, with a proposal by Tim Berners-Lee. The goal was to create a system to share information among scientists.

The very first website was hosted at info.cern.ch. This site, which you can still visit today, provided information about the World Wide Web project itself. It explained what the web was, how to get a web browser, and how to set up a web server.

The First Web Page

The first web page, in its simplest form, was a plain text document with hyperlinks. These links, a revolutionary concept at the time, allowed users to navigate between different documents and resources. The technology behind this was HTML (HyperText Markup Language), which remains the standard for creating web pages.

The early web was a quiet, text-based world, a stark contrast to the media-rich, interactive experience we have today. But it was this simple foundation that paved the way for the digital revolution that followed.