You can always access the first website in history

It is more than rudimentary, devoid of illustrations and is content to provide access to 25 links to other pages. This is the very first page of the Web that went live over 30 years ago, on August 6, 1991. It is the Cern, the European Organization for Nuclear Research which is at the origin of this page simply called World Wide Web, in other words, the Web. This is the origin of what we all know now.

This page was created by Tim Berners-Lee who is precisely considered to be the inventor of the Web. It was a question of referring thanks to hyperlinks to a vast universe of documents, as specified in this original page which remains active today and which can be consulted via this lien. It contains everything related to the history of the project, how to use and navigate the Web. But before this page was published, the inventor had previously developed the basic management system for the Web, as well as the http protocol. It was only three years later that it was activated. And inevitably, at the time, it remained quite confidential.

The NeXT Computer, the computer that brought the Web to life

For the little anecdote in this story, the inventor of the Web created this universe from a NeXT brand computer. A company founded by a certain Steve Jobs after he was pressured into resignation by Apple. Powerful and designed to be used by researchers and businesses, NeXT computers cost a fortune. For the NeXT Computer, the first opus, released in 1988 and which was right on the desk of Tim Berners-Lee, it was necessary to spend 6,500 dollars at the time, or today the equivalent of 15,000 dollars (approx. 13,915 euros). Thirty years after this computer inaugurated the Web, on August 6, 2021, there were 1.88 billion websites, according to the counter Internet Live Stats and among them, this very first website.