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== The origin story ==
== The origin story ==


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1989:
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>.
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>.


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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>
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]]
[[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>
<small>Screenshot of the recreated page of the first website. Photograph: Rao, Achintya © 2019-2022 CERN</small>


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[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>.
[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:
1994:  
The world oldest webcam [https://fogcam.org/ Fogcam], still online today. <ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALIWEB</ref>
The web's oldest search engine [http://aliweb.com/ ALIWEB] (Archie Like Indexing for the Web) <ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALIWEB</ref>


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1994:
[textfiles.com/underconstruction/ Under constructions banner on Geocities]
The world oldest webcam [https://fogcam.org/ Fogcam], still online today.


1994:
1994:
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALIWEB ALIWEB] (Archie Like Indexing for the Web) - The first search engine.
[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).


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1994:

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

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