what was the first web page on the internet?

Answer 1

The Internet is pretty old - starting in the 1960s but used originally by the military. It has to be something military I guess. When the Internet became available to the civil population my guess is that amongst the first sites were porn. Someone once said that porn paid to really get the Internet started. May be some truth in that.

There are apparently hundreds of thousands of 'ghost sites' out there in cyberspace. Sites that have been abandoned decades ago by the original owners and creators.

One of the oldest down-loadable and use-able programs on the Internet is 'Onspeed'. This program, developed by NASA back in the 1970s was and is used to speed up downloads. What it does is to squeeze graphics, reducing them in size, so that downloading speeds up. You can rent this program for about £20 a year. I use it all the time and it speeds up downloads by up-to 3 or 4 times faster.

Answer 2

The first on-line website appeared in 1991. On 30 April 1993, CERN announced that the World Wide Web would be free to anyone.[1] A copy of the original first Web page, created by Tim Berners-Lee, is kept here.

wikipedia.com

Answer 3

Internet, or IP networks ?

HTML rendering ( which people often call the internet ) evolved from a development lab in CERN, so the first page didn't magically appear.

The statement about it being in the USA is typical mis-information from our USA-centric histories.

The first HTML rendering was probably "Hello World" because this traditionally is the first text to be used to try rendering in any language

Answer 4

This links to the first web page ever published:

http://www.w3.org/History/19921103-hypertext/hypertext/WWW/News/9201.html

The following links detail other links and information on this subject.

http://www.slac.stanford.edu/history/earlyweb/firstpages.shtml

http://uk.search.yahoo.com/search?p=history+of+the+first+ever+web+page&prssweb=Search&ei=UTF-8&fr=ks-ques&x=wrt&meta=vc%3D

I have personally been online for nine years, met many old hands with computing through cyber space. One was in the military and he told me on the 'phone... that when he began computing in the sixties, computers were the size of rooms and that it took all that space, and machinery, to do the very basics of what can be done today.

They've come a very long way in a very short space of time.

I've seen enormous changes in my nine years, sadly though, not inside behaviour of the users:-(

Seems they grow more adept while we just fester!

So yes, the military connections, rings right with me.

Answer 5

The first Web site built was at CERN (world's largest particle physics laboratory) and was first put online on August 6, 1991. It provided an explanation about what the World Wide Web was, how one could own a browser and how to set up a Web server. It was also the world's first Web directory.

The man credited with this is an English man Tim Berners-Lee. To read more see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee

Answer 6

This is a copy of the first ever web page

Answer 7

Page 1 of course!

Answer 8

The internet started as arpanet which was an American millitary communications network. The Internet as we know it (http) was devised by Burns-lee and it was an advert for computing in Suffolk.

Answer 9

Was it Bill Gates' 'How Rich I Am' page with a real-time counter showing how his money was growing?

Answer 10

The coffee / tea pot thing

This was the first web cam on the internet. (I think) It was researchers at Cambridge universtity set it up to look at their coffee machine so they didnt have to get up and walk down the corridor to check it.