2023-12-04 09:30:00
In a world where the World Wide Web (WWW) has become an essential part of daily life, it is fascinating to explore the first website in history and understand its impact on the digital world. Both the creation of the first website and the conception of the WWW are attributable to British scientist Tim Berners-Lee, who at the time was a researcher at the prestigious European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN) in Geneva.
December 20, 1990, apparently an ordinary day, marked the beginning of a tool that still today allows information to be shared globally through a simple architecture based on documents and links, known as ‘hypertext’.
Despite the evolution of millions of web pages on the Internet, the original web page has never gone offline and is accessible at the URL
In its early stages, this website was hosted on Berners-Lee’s NeXT computer, with a note warning: “This machine is a server. DO NOT SHUT DOWN.”
The original WWW page was self-referential, focused on technical aspects of the WWW itself. Although simple compared to modern web pages, lacking colors, images or videos, its content was essential: it provided basic instructions on how the web worked, teaching how to access documents and create servers.
The content of the page, under the heading “World Wide Web”, expressed the ambition of the WorldWideWeb (W3) initiative to provide universal access to a vast universe of hypermedia documents.
In 1993, CERN announced that the WWW would be publicly accessible and free, marking the beginning of the digital age. Although it was not the origin of the Internet, the WWW became a momentous change.
In a symbolic gesture, the Telefónica Foundation launched the #ElSitio1155 initiative so that the first website is recognized as a ‘World Heritage Site’ by UNESCO. This digital milestone, in http://info.cern.chrepresents an essential piece of digital history and culture that deserves recognition.
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