CERN · November 1991
World Wide Web The first website ever, by CERN (1991)
The WorldWideWeb (W3) is a wide-area hypermedia information retrieval initiative aiming to give universal access to a large universe of documents.
Everything is linked from here
Everything there is online about W3 is linked directly or indirectly to this document, including an executive summary of the project, Mailing lists, Policy, November's W3 news, Frequently Asked Questions.
Software products
A list of W3 project components and their current state.
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The directory
- REF-01What's out there?
- Pointers to the world's online information, subjects, W3 servers, etc.
- REF-02Help
- on the browser you are using
- REF-03Software Products
- A list of W3 project components and their current state. (e.g. Line Mode, X11 Viola, NeXTStep, Servers, Tools, Mail robot, Library) Browse the products.
- REF-04Technical
- Details of protocols, formats, program internals etc
- REF-05Bibliography
- Paper documentation on W3 and references.
- REF-06People
- A list of some people involved in the project.
- REF-07History
- A summary of the history of the project.
- REF-08How can I help?
- If you would like to support the web..
- REF-09Getting code
- Getting the code by anonymous FTP, etc.
About this copy of the 1991 CERN web page
This is a recreation of the oldest surviving copy (November 1991) of the page first published by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN. The original 1990–1991 version was not preserved. The text and links are unchanged; only the presentation is new. Use the switch at the top to compare both versions. The original lives at info.cern.ch.