ArsTechnica is celebrating the 15 years of the World Wide Web, by writing an interesting article on the birth of what is now in our everyday lives. It even has a link to an archived copy of the first ever known web page, posted by a CERN physicist in 1992.

In November of 1990, Tim Berners-Lee, a researcher at Europe’s CERN Particle Physics Laboratory, invented the very first web server and web browser. The server, entitled simply httpd, and the browser, called WorldWideWeb, ran on Tim’s NeXT cube and worked exclusively on the NeXTstep operating system. Archive copies of Tim’s first web page and some early web sites show a web that is simultaneously very different from the modern one and yet still very familiar.

You can read the entire article here.

November 6th, 2005 | Technology