What was (or is) the first website (oldest) ever on the internet?

Answer 1

The first Web site went on-line in 1991. Check the source and scroll down to the trivia section.

Answer 2

You asked, "What was the first website ever?" Well, that depends on your definition of "web site." It would be great if there was a nice clear-cut answer, but, like most inventions, the world wide web didn't just pop into existence all at once....It happened (and is still happening) in stages. A reasonable answer might be the site that Tim Berners-Lee put together at CERN for the development of the first Browser/Editor, called WorldWideWeb, in 1990. But people might say, no, that didn't have enough in it of what we would today call "web technology" to qualify. Others might say, no, there were earlier things that qualify like Vanevar Bush's " As We May Think" article in the July 1945 Atlantic Monthly.

But I'll stick with whatever test data Berners-Lee used in the development of the program called WorldWideWeb. Certainly by 1993, there were several sites at CERN that qualified by most people's definition. Here's a screen shot of the 1993 WorldWideWib browser/editor courtesy of the World Wide Web Consortium:

Answer 3

The original first web page went online on August, 1991 was created by Tim Berners-Lee - the inventor of World Wide Web with the help from Robert Cailliau. On 30 April 1993, Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire (CERN) announced that the World Wide Web (www.) would be free to anyone. The ancestor of every website can be found at http://www.w3.org/History/19921103-hypertext/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html

Hope this helps.

Answer 4

Here's the 100 oldest.
http://www.jottings.com/100-oldest-dot-com-domains.htm

Michael
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