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The very first web site...

... is down

         

pleeker

8:02 am on Apr 1, 2003 (gmt 0)

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I'm reading through my TIME magazine, and their feature on "80 days that changed the world" (it's the magazine's 80th anniversary this year) and there's an entry for August 6, 1991 -- the day Tim Berners-Lee announced the "WorldWideWeb (WWW) project" on a newsgroup. The blurb also says Berners-Lee's message includes information on how to download the first web browser from the first web site, [info.cern.ch...] .

If TIME is accurate with its info., and I assume it is, the very first web site on the Internet no longer exists.

Am I the only one who finds that odd? And is a bit put off? If nothing else, shouldn't that web site be some sort of museum or history lesson about how it all began?

creative craig

8:07 am on Apr 1, 2003 (gmt 0)

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Wasn't that taken off line when the server couldnt handle the amount of site visitors/tourists :)