World's first website went online 25 years ago today!

World's first website went online 25 years ago today!

Invented by Tim Berners Lee, the first website, info.cern.ch,went live at research lab CERN in 1990. When Berners-Lee created the first website, the “internet” was a group of static documents, used almost exclusively by defense organizations and academic institutions. The inaugural page wasn't truly public when it went live at CERN on December 20th, 1990 and it wasn't much more than an explanation of how the hypertext-based project worked.
The goal was to allow electronic documents on the internet to be easily searched and shared.
"I found it frustrating that in those days, there was different information on different computers, but you had to log on to different computers to get at it.".

Happy Birthday Website!

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