The First Website Ever Made - A Brief History

First web page went live on August 6, 1991 at CERN

Tim Berners-Lee created the first web page (above) while working for CERN - The European Organization for Nuclear Research. It was originally developed to solve the problem of information-sharing (documents) between scientists.

You can see the first proposal put up by Tim in March 1989 here. A more formal proposal was submitted by Tim along with Robert Cailliau on November 12, 1990.

The first web server was hosted on a NeXT computer (developed by the company founded by Steve Jobs after he was shunted out of Apple Computers) that belonged to Berners-Lee. He had to build all the software tools necessary for a working Web - the first web browser, the first web server, and the first web pages which described the project itself.

On 6 August 1991, Berners-Lee published a short summary of the World Wide Web project on the newsgroup alt.hypertext. This date also marked the debut of the Web as a publicly available service on the net.