the first web page

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The plain page Tim Berners-Lee published at CERN in 1991 to explain the World Wide Web itself.

Served from a NeXT machine at info.cern.ch, it described what the web was, how to make a browser, and how to set up a server - the web documenting its own instructions. CERN restored the page at its original address, so the first thing the web ever said is still online.

Also known as: info.cern.ch, first website, WorldWideWeb, Tim Berners-Lee

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