30 April marked the World Wide Web’s 20th anniversary. On that the day in 1993, it entered the public domain. But none of the social networking or music streaming we enjoy today would have been possible if it weren’t for Conseil Europeen pour la Recherche Nuclucleaire (CERN) making the World Wide Web technologies available to everyone, a decision that was cheered on by web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee.

This advert was written in 1993 by the World Wide Web team:

To find out about WWW:

telnet info.cern.ch [a command you would type into your network-enabled computer]

This will give you the very basic line-mode interface. Don’t be disappointed: use it to find out how to install it or more advanced graphical interface browsers on your local system.

And to celebrate this milestone in history CERN is reviving the orginial and first website. This URL (https://infor.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html) has been dormant for years.

In conjunction, digital assets associated with the birth of web will be retrieved and preserved. The website, info.CERN.ch will act as a historical archive that can be used an explored by generations to come.

Browse the first website HERE.

[Source: CERN]