what was the first page ever put on the internet? Or what was the first ever website?

Answer 1

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.

Screenshot:http://www.w3.org/History/1994/WWW/Journals/CACM/screensnap2_24c.gif

Answer 2

unfortunately, you will need to understand what the internet is before you can understand your answer.

The internet, just as the name implies, is a network of computers. When you open up www.yahoo.com for example... you are accessing a file (www.yahoo.com/index.html) from yahoos computer. When you have opened this file (html) your computer converts the code in the document into the webpage you are failure with today.

This process is much like typing the following into the address bar of your internet explorer...

c:\ windows\ system32\ calc.exe (with no spaces)

if you do so, you will be accessing the calculator program located on your local c drive > windows folder > system32 folder.

So... when you type in yahoo... you are really simply accessing yahoos computer and opening up that file...


so. to answer your question. The Internet is a network of computers all over the world. The first "webpage" (now we know you are talking about files, like html), would be all the files on the first computer that was pluged into the internet.

I hope that helps

Answer 3

a, again