Computing History & Legendary BugsWeb History

The First Website Is Still Online

You can still visit the page Tim Berners-Lee published in 1991

Somewhere on the internet sits the very first web page, the one every other page descends from. What's on it?

You'll find out

  • Why a physics lab invented the web
  • What the very first page said
  • How one page became billions

Why it matters

Every link you tap works the way that first page's links did. Seeing it explains the whole web in one screen.

About 3 min6 interactive slides · 5 questionsLesson 63 · Zone 7

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