World’s First 5 Websites

You won't believe which one was FIRST…

info.cern.ch – The First Website EVER

Launched: August 6, 1991 By: Tim Berners-Lee Purpose: To explain the World Wide Web project

symbolics.com – First .com domain

Registered: March 15, 1985 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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