The First Website Ever Celebrates Its 20th Birthday - went live on August 6, 1991 -
The World Wide Web has become synonymous with "the Internet" in recent years, but the Internet actually predated Berners-Lee's invention. While the Internet allowed computers to talk to each other, the World Wide Web was dreamt up as the way to browse between them and access various information sources. Berners-Lee is credited with the invention of the World Wide Web system – which, indeed, is the primary function of the Internet that most of us use on a daily basis.
Read more: http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/08/06/the-first-website-ever-celebrates-its-20th-birthday/#ixzz1UNWyltvG
On August 6, 1991, the first website was launched on the Internet, forever changing the way we browse. (And thankfully, web design has improved just a bit in the past two decades.)
We here at NewsFeed think it's important to respect our roots. And today happens to be a milestone in our history.
It's like we're celebrating the 20th birthday of our great-great-great-… -great-grandfather: the modern website. You see, we (and all of our newsy brethren to say the least) essentially wouldn't exist had it not been for the work of Tim Berners-Lee. Then a contractor at CERN, the European nuclear research organization, Berners-Lee had access to the largest Internet node on the continent.
The World Wide Web has become synonymous with "the Internet" in recent years, but the Internet actually predated Berners-Lee's invention. While the Internet allowed computers to talk to each other, the World Wide Web was dreamt up as the way to browse between them and access various information sources. Berners-Lee is credited with the invention of the World Wide Web system – which, indeed, is the primary function of the Internet that most of us use on a daily basis.
Read more: http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/08/06/the-first-website-ever-celebrates-its-20th-birthday/#ixzz1UNWyltvG
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