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The First Website Ever Made

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52 pointszeeshanm19 comments

The URL for this would much better be http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html - as this site is CERN's, not W3's

Responsive, fonts load quickly, tab ordering is sane - A+ Tim!

How is this the first website? the subjects page has links to so many other websites....

It has been updated, of course. The "W3 servers" page notes that the content hasn't changed since 1992.

Websites can be updated after they are first created which is one of their many virtues.

In the to-do list (http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/Bugs.html): "Search engines : Now the web of data and indexes exists, some really smart intelligent algorithms ("knowbots?") could run on it. Recursive index and link tracing, Just think... "

Hey look, even then there was a <header> tag.

But no <HTML> tag and no DOCTYPE. Things were definitely a bit woolly pre-1995, when the first proper HTML spec (version 2.0...) was published.

Other milestones:

Post on alt.hypertext on 6/8/1991

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/alt.hypertext/eCTkkOoW...

NCSA X Mosaic 0.5 released, 23/1/1993

http://1997.webhistory.org/www.lists/www-talk.1993q1/0099.ht...

The HTML style of the First Website Ever Made is interesting to read: short lines, careful line breaks, upper-case tags (and a few no-longer-seen) but no indentation.

Spacing, as always, is tricky in hand-written HTML.

Is there such thing as not-hand-written HTML?

Program-generated HTML?

WYSIWYG-editor-generated HTML?

I know there are other ways to generate it. I'm just wondering what self-respecting dev wouldn't write their own.

How about a self-respecting dev using a md-to-html blog implementation?

I wonder why a line break was used after the A in the opening A tags.

Clear love for definition lists. <dl>...<dt>...<dd>

And love that the first site was trully responsive. :)

How I wish there were sites styled like that (no irony, and I know it doesn't has any style). Get in, grab your info, maybe see an image and get out.

Good times.

Extra /A at the end :)

What is/was NEXTID?

> What is/was NEXTID?

Used by the NeXT WorldWideWeb editor to know what the next free anchor name was

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