A British physicist Tim Berners-Lee launched a
world-changing invention twenty years ago when the first ever website became
available on the internet on the 30th of April, 1993.
Tim Berners-Lee had invented the World Wide Web as an
employee of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (NERC) in 1989. However
the first website came on the internet in 1993.
NERC has resurrected the extinct first web page to the
internet on the 30th of April, 2013 to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of
the launch of the World Wide Web.
The first website was in text only HTML (HyperText Markup
Language) format and was about teaching people how to use the new invention.
The CERN Director-General Rolf Heuer in a statement on CERN’s
website said;
“There is no sector of society that has not been transformed
by the invention, in a physics laboratory, of the web.
“From research to business and education, the web has been
reshaping the way we communicate, work, innovate and live. The web is a
powerful example of the way that basic research benefits mankind.”
Speaking to AFP, CERN web manager said the project will
allow future generations to understand the origin and importance of the Web and
its impact on modern life.
“We want to preserve the idea of openness and freedom to
collect and collaborate,”
“The first browser was actually very sophisticated, with
images and features that don’t really exist anymore, like being able to edit
web pages as well as read them.”
“We would like to somehow enable people to try this.”
It must be noted however that the World Wide Web though hosted
on the internet is a different entity from the internet. The internet has been
in existence since 1975 invented by Vint Cerf and Bob Khan.
Today I am in a point in space posting online; you’re in a
point in space reading this, all thanks to Tim Berners-Lee.
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The first website back online to commemorate 20th anniversary of World Wide Web