World’s First 5 Websites
You won't believe which one was FIRST…
info.cern.ch
– The First Website EVER
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Launched:
August 6, 1991
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By:
Tim Berners-Lee
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Purpose:
To explain the World Wide Web project
symbolics.com
– First .com domain
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Registered:
March 15, 1985
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Company:
Symbolics Inc., a computer manufacturer
stanford.edu
– Early educational website
– One of the
first .edu websites
– Used for academic research & email
ncsa.uiuc.edu
– Home of Mosaic Browser
– Played a
huge role in popularizing
the web
– Mosaic was the first GUI web browser
whitehouse.gov
(1994)
The US government’s first online step Showed how serious the web had become. A powerful shift — from geeks to global.
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