Timeline of the Interweb

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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:

  1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee
  2. ↑ https://home.cern/science/computing/birth-web
  3. ↑ https://web30.web.cern.ch/web-history.html
  4. ↑ https://www.nikhef.nl/en/focusblokken/netherlands-first-website-www-nikhef-nl-celebrates-30th-anniversary/
  5. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALIWEB
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