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

1889: The World Wide Web was 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

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 world oldest webcam Fogcam, still online today.

1994: Pizzanet

1996: SpaceJam

1998: Hamster dance!

Interesting 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/
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