Does anyone know what the first web page was?

May 16th, 2000, 01:59 AM

Does anyone know what the first web page on the internet was?

**Bob Baddeley** · May 16th, 2000, 04:55 AM

I think it was more of a gradual process toward standardized languages, just like there's no first c++ program. They started off just sending pure text over lines, then got more and more technical, then invented the browser, etc.

bob

**Gen-X** · May 16th, 2000, 05:56 AM

The first webpage was this one :

Code:

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Cannot Find File</TITLE>
</HEAD>

<BODY>

404 : File not found

</BODY>
</HTML>

**Sam Finch** · May 16th, 2000, 07:16 AM

lol

The First Webpage was technical data from experimaents at CERN (a big Particle accelarator in Switzerland) That's what it was invented for, for describing results of experiments done on the particle accelarator so that physisists all over the world could analyse them etc.

**Gen-X** · May 16th, 2000, 08:31 AM

Sam,

The Internet was Government NOT Scientific... If anything DARPA would have had testing documentation rather than scientific... I think you are talking about the first page that was seen on the "PUBLIC" internet.

**gfurner** · May 17th, 2000, 12:17 AM

I thought the internet began when two friends connected their computers and could send text messages to each other, and just grew from there. I could be wrong though.

**Bob Baddeley** · May 17th, 2000, 05:54 AM

What? I was always under the impression that it started with the universities sending data between each other. Not the government at all.

May 17th, 2000, 06:43 AM

I was referring to governemnt as in the military. They have computers that have Terabytes of memenry on their computers right now.

May 18th, 2000, 06:37 AM

the world wide web started when CERN and MIT started researching something, I think it was for the government, to help them transfer information more easily.
they invented something called "HyperText"
which was documents connected Via "HyperText Links" the book I read, said
"most of the hypertext documents had links built into them"
all of this eventually lead to the development of the hypertext transfer protocol (http), which then lead to file tranfer protocol(ftp)
I think gopher is somewhere between http and ftp

in all of my days on the internet, I have only been to one gopher website, seems it is really un popular....

oh, about terrabytes.... terrabytes are cool

about 1,000,000,000,000 bytes per terrabyte, and the gov has cabinets that hold hundreds, possibly thousands of terrabytes.... that would kick so much ass.... i could have almost every program ever developed(non military programs I mean)

**Sam Finch** · May 18th, 2000, 07:06 AM

Oh yeah, I remember, Decentralized computing was in fact developed by the US government because they were scared that the russians could do some serious damage if they hit the US Government Mainframe.

**da_silvy** · May 18th, 2000, 12:59 PM

it was originally made for the military, so that it would be a more reliable communications source, rather than a phone system in a book that i read, it said that it was too revolutionary for the military, so it became a scientific "place"

I read this in a book by Dr. karl Kruszelnicki

Jun 6th, 2000, 02:53 AM

Your all wrong. The first webpage was porn! And the very last webpage will also be porn!

.

**G.Kumaraguru** · Jun 10th, 2000, 01:21 AM

Mathew is partly correct...

The first webpage was. ..

http://www.adamandeve.edn/

of course edn stands for the garden of eden..

If you have doubts...
check http://www.BIBLE.org/

**Juan Carlos Rey** · Jun 10th, 2000, 07:51 AM

Oh, Kumara boy, haveth thou a copy of that page?
My Browser keeps telling me "sorry, page already expired"!

[Edited by Juan Carlos Rey on 06-11-2000 at 01:19 AM]

**parksie** · Jun 10th, 2000, 04:44 PM

wasn't FTP before HTTP?
anyway, the internet was originally government, then the students got hold of it and turned it into their own communications medium. Tim Berners-Lee at CERN invented hypertext, because he's british and the british have all the best ideas...except for our monarchy. there must be something up - in London we have loads of homeless people, and also the richest woman in the world. hmmm.

Jun 11th, 2000, 10:23 AM

My information was that the first distributed internet system was APRANET which was used by US Universities and Government. Remembering that people are confusing the term "internet" with "world wide web". Unix pre-dated ASP therefore l figure it has to be one of the pages on this system.

Source Steve Levy's book "Hackers"....which isn't about crackers but that's another arguement.

**parksie** · Jun 12th, 2000, 04:05 AM

yeah. I suppose Unix has everything comprehensively slaughtered for longevity on the internet. the modern internet is what ARPANET was once the students got hold of it...what an influence!

**Fox** · Aug 4th, 2000, 07:29 AM

I finally found the first website of the internet:

http://www.1st.com

*hehe*

**Harrild** · Aug 8th, 2000, 02:15 AM

The US military decided in the Cold War that if their systems were centralised the russians could knock em out in one hit so they decided to decentralise everything. The theory ws that if one part of the system was knocked out or stopped sending data without a reason the top brass were to assume that they had been attacked. Being new technology i guess there were a lot of false alarms. Anyway out of this grew BBS's and then ISP's and then HTTP's and FTP's for Mr Public. Hypertext has been around longer than the net anyway. A guy by the name of Vannevar Bush wrote an article discussing the need of new ways to access information, this was in 1945. The term hypertext was first used in 1965 by Ted Nelson who applied the theory to a computer based information retrieval system. Hypertext systems hit the public in 1987 when Apple released HyperCard for its own computers.

And yes you are right, the miltary system was based around numbers of course because thats how computers operate (they dont think, they have no intelligence, they just do what the program tells them to do).

[Edited by Harrild on 08-08-2000 at 03:18 AM]

**HarryW** · Aug 8th, 2000, 04:51 AM

My understanding of it is the same as Jethro says, ARPANET - a combination of US government/military networks and universities networked together. Possibly two different networks initially, then merged. The universities wanted to be able to share their research in order to improve scientific progress.

**Penar** · Aug 25th, 2000, 12:52 AM

In those ancient times, there was the Ghoper Servers. When it actualy "mutate" into HTTP? Can we call "ghoper pages" as "web pages"?

Ruben

Aug 25th, 2000, 01:03 AM

How are people still finding this thread?!?!?!?!?!

Aug 25th, 2000, 01:56 AM

gopher's arent really webpages, more like little furry animals(this is where you come in Gary LOL)...
seriously, gopher used to be a protocol used by college campuses, I think it was text only, not sure if you could have *.HTM/L files though.
I have only been to one gopher website, it was some text file about some really old language(I think it was x86 asm).

**Ben.Stappleton** · Aug 25th, 2000, 05:18 AM

Everyone's right to some extent.

I think:

Universities created the ability to pass information between the machines in a real time format and the military used this technology to decentralise their systems. These "networks" merged and that was the beginning of the internet.

That wasn't the question though. Most people don't realise the internet ISN'T the World Wide Web.

To my knowledge , the first web page was, as mentioned, from CERN using HTML invented by (obviously) the British. In fact, British Telecom actually own the patents to HyperLinks and they're currently looking into the legalities of charging people for the use of this technology, as they do officially own it.

I don't think anything will come of it, I think they'll just get slapped down, but they do still own it though...

**v!sualAd** · May 25th, 2006, 03:19 AM

Shaggy Hiker invented the Internet.

**mendhak** · May 25th, 2006, 04:05 AM

The first website was www.symbolics.com

**wossname** · May 25th, 2006, 06:31 AM

Hello HTML world!

**capsulecorpjx** · May 25th, 2006, 11:19 AM

I was referring to governemnt as in the military. They have computers that have Terabytes of memenry on their computers right now.

The government invented the network of computers concept (I'm not even sure if they invented the TCP/IP protocol).

He's asking about the first WEB page.

First web page was most likely the guy who invented HTML: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee

**Jmacp** · May 25th, 2006, 11:23 AM

first image if thats any good.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_image_on_the_Web

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