Timeline of the Interweb

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The origin story

1889: The World Wide Web was invented by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN [1].

90's

1991: The first ever website was published by Tim Berners-Lee. The original website was lost, however re-created later in 2013. [2]

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) [3].

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

1994: Pizzanet

1996: SpaceJam

1998: Hamster dance!

Interesting timelines

https://web30.web.cern.ch/web-history.html https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/timeline https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/timeline