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Welcome to this little timeline of the interwebs.
[[File:First Web Server.jpg|thumb|This NeXT Computer was used by Berners-Lee at CERN and became the world's first web server" <ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee</ref> Coolcaesar at the English-language Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/>, via Wikimedia Commons]]
== The origin story ==
== The origin story ==


1889:
1989:
The World Wide Web was invented by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN <ref>https://home.cern/science/computing/birth-web</ref>.
World Wide Web invented by [https://home.cern/science/computing/birth-web Tim Berners-Lee at CERN] <ref>https://home.cern/science/computing/birth-web</ref>.


== 90's ==
== 90's ==


1991:
1991:
The first ever website was published by Tim Berners-Lee. The website was lost, however [re-created http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html] later in 2013. <ref>https://web30.web.cern.ch/web-history.html</ref>
The first ever website was published by Tim Berners-Lee. The original website was lost, however [http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html re-created] later in 2013. <ref>https://web30.web.cern.ch/web-history.html</ref>
 
[[File:Screenshot-World-Wide-Web-project-small.png|Screenshot of the recreated page of the first website. Photograph: Rao, Achintya © 2019-2022 CERN]]<br/>
<small>Screenshot of the recreated page of the first website. Photograph: Rao, Achintya © 2019-2022 CERN</small>
 
1991:
[http://www.vlib.org/ Vlib] by Tim Berners-Lee
 
1992:
[https://www.nikhef.nl/en/focusblokken/netherlands-first-website-www-nikhef-nl-celebrates-30th-anniversary/ First Dutch website] went live at the National Institute for Nuclear and High Energy Physics (Nikhef) <ref>https://www.nikhef.nl/en/focusblokken/netherlands-first-website-www-nikhef-nl-celebrates-30th-anniversary/</ref>.
 
1994:
The web's oldest search engine [http://aliweb.com/ ALIWEB] (Archie Like Indexing for the Web) <ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALIWEB</ref>
 
1994:
The world oldest webcam [https://fogcam.org/ Fogcam], still online today.
 
1994:
[http://textfiles.com/underconstruction/ Under constructions banner on Geocities] and [https://www.cameronsworld.net/ Cameron's World] a web-collage of text and images excavated from the buried neighbourhoods of archived GeoCities pages (1994-2009).
 
1994:
[https://ik.imagekit.io/aoi3fgebjgr/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/pizzanet.png Pizzanet]
 
1996:
[https://www.spacejam.com/1996/ SpaceJam]
 
1998:
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEH2fk0ONag Hamster dance!] ❤️
 
== 00s a.k.a the noughties ==
 
2002/2003:
[http://www.arngren.net Arngren] - The ultimate shopping experience


== More timelines ==


== Interesting timelines ==
Continue your journey on the history of the internet:
https://web30.web.cern.ch/web-history.html
* https://web30.web.cern.ch/web-history.html
https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/timeline
* https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/timeline
https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/timeline
* https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/timeline

Latest revision as of 08:59, 30 September 2022

Welcome to this little timeline of the interwebs.

This NeXT Computer was used by Berners-Lee at CERN and became the world's first web server" [1] Coolcaesar at the English-language Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/>, via Wikimedia Commons

The origin story

1989: World Wide Web invented by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN [2].

90's

1991: The first ever website was published by Tim Berners-Lee. The original website was lost, however re-created later in 2013. [3]

Screenshot of the recreated page of the first website. Photograph: Rao, Achintya © 2019-2022 CERN
Screenshot of the recreated page of the first website. Photograph: Rao, Achintya © 2019-2022 CERN

1991: Vlib by Tim Berners-Lee

1992: First Dutch website went live at the National Institute for Nuclear and High Energy Physics (Nikhef) [4].

1994: The web's oldest search engine ALIWEB (Archie Like Indexing for the Web) [5]

1994: The world oldest webcam Fogcam, still online today.

1994: Under constructions banner on Geocities and Cameron's World a web-collage of text and images excavated from the buried neighbourhoods of archived GeoCities pages (1994-2009).

1994: Pizzanet

1996: SpaceJam

1998: Hamster dance! ❤️

00s a.k.a the noughties

2002/2003: Arngren - The ultimate shopping experience

More timelines

Continue your journey on the history of the internet: