what was the first web page on the internet?

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what was the first web page on the internet?

Answer 1

The Internet is pretty old - starting in the 1960s but used originally by the military. It has to be something military I guess. When the Internet became available to the civil population my guess is that amongst the first sites were porn. Someone once said that porn paid to really get the Internet started. May be some truth in that.



There are apparently hundreds of thousands of 'ghost sites' out there in cyberspace. Sites that have been abandoned decades ago by the original owners and creators.



One of the oldest down-loadable and use-able programs on the Internet is 'Onspeed'. This program, developed by NASA back in the 1970s was and is used to speed up downloads. What it does is to squeeze graphics, reducing them in size, so that downloading speeds up. You can rent this program for about £20 a year. I use it all the time and it speeds up downloads by up-to 3 or 4 times faster.

Answer 2

The first on-line website appeared in 1991. On 30 April 1993, CERN announced that the World Wide Web would be free to anyone.[1] A copy of the original first Web page, created by Tim Berners-Lee, is kept here.



wikipedia.com

Answer 3

Internet, or IP networks ?



HTML rendering ( which people often call the internet ) evolved from a development lab in CERN, so the first page didn't magically appear.



The statement about it being in the USA is typical mis-information from our USA-centric histories.



The first HTML rendering was probably "Hello World" because this traditionally is the first text to be used to try rendering in any language

Answer 4

This links to the first web page ever published:



http://www.w3.org/History/19921103-hypertext/hypertext/WWW/News/9201.html



The following links detail other links and information on this subject.



http://www.slac.stanford.edu/history/earlyweb/firstpages.shtml



http://uk.search.yahoo.com/search?p=history+of+the+first+ever+web+page&prssweb=Search&ei=UTF-8&fr=ks-ques&x=wrt&meta=vc%3D



I have personally been online for nine years, met many old hands with computing through cyber space. One was in the military and he told me on the 'phone... that when he began computing in the sixties, computers were the size of rooms and that it took all that space, and machinery, to do the very basics of what can be done today.



They've come a very long way in a very short space of time.



I've seen enormous changes in my nine years, sadly though, not inside behaviour of the users:-(



Seems they grow more adept while we just fester!



So yes, the military connections, rings right with me.

Answer 5

The first Web site built was at CERN (world's largest particle physics laboratory) and was first put online on August 6, 1991. It provided an explanation about what the World Wide Web was, how one could own a browser and how to set up a Web server. It was also the world's first Web directory.



The man credited with this is an English man Tim Berners-Lee. To read more see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee

Answer 6

This is a copy of the first ever web page

Answer 7

Page 1 of course!

Answer 8

The internet started as arpanet which was an American millitary communications network. The Internet as we know it (http) was devised by Burns-lee and it was an advert for computing in Suffolk.

Answer 9

Was it Bill Gates' 'How Rich I Am' page with a real-time counter showing how his money was growing?

Answer 10

The coffee / tea pot thing



This was the first web cam on the internet. (I think) It was researchers at Cambridge universtity set it up to look at their coffee machine so they didnt have to get up and walk down the corridor to check it.

Answer 11

The answer is on "Guinness Book of World Records"

Answer 12

it was a site on how to make a web page.

don't know who it was by or when.

Answer 13

I remember something called Prodigy. It was in the United States. I think it was something like e-mail. It was in the early 90's.

Answer 14

It was



ca



It was supposed to be cat but the system crashed when they typed in the third letter.

Answer 15

The first web page was a post-it-note slapped ona monitor saying "watch this space"

Answer 16

Q: What was the first web page?



A: Apart from local "file:" URLs on my machine (which was the first browser as well as the first server), the first http one (end of 1990) was basically



http://nxoc01.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html



An alias was made so that this was later known as



http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html



It is not now (alas) served but a later (1992) copy of the original pages exists at http://www.w3.org/History/19921103-hypertext/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html

Answer 17

probably an army page?

Answer 18

Possibly a militar web page, because Internet (like almost inventions) was devised for war.

Answer 19

microsoft home page

Answer 20

The first web page was microsoft home page, i think.

Answer 21

i dont know !! he he probably it was referrering about some something related to internet like www.hereisyourinternet.com or something!!

Answer 22

Chance are it was bound to contain a naked lady!

Answer 23

*The underlying ideas of the Web can be traced as far back as 1980, when, at CERN in Switzerland, the Englishman Tim Berners-Lee built ENQUIRE (referring to Enquire Within Upon Everything, a book he recalled from his youth). While it was rather different from the Web in use today, it contained many of the same core ideas (and even some of the ideas of Berners-Lee's next project after the WWW, the Semantic Web).



In March 1989, Tim Berners-Lee wrote Information Management: A Proposal, which referenced ENQUIRE and described a more elaborate information management system. With help from Robert Cailliau, he published a more formal proposal for the World Wide Web on November 12, 1990.



A NeXTcube was used by Berners-Lee as the world's first web server and also to write the first web browser, WorldWideWeb in 1990. By Christmas 1990, Berners-Lee had built all the tools necessary for a working Web [1]: the first Web browser (which was a Web editor as well), the first Web server and the first Web pages which described the project itself.



On August 6, 1991, he posted a short summary of the World Wide Web project on the alt.hypertext newsgroup. This date also marked the debut of the Web as a publicly available service on the Internet.



The crucial underlying concept of hypertext originated with older projects from the 1960s, such as Ted Nelson's Project Xanadu and Douglas Engelbart's oN-Line System (NLS). Both Nelson and Engelbart were in turn inspired by Vannevar Bush's microfilm-based "memex," which was described in the 1945 essay "As We May Think".



Berners-Lee's breakthrough was to marry hypertext to the Internet. In his book Weaving The Web, he explains that he had repeatedly suggested that a marriage between the two technologies was possible to members of both technical communities, but when no one took up his invitation, he finally tackled the project himself. In the process, he developed a system of globally unique identifiers for resources on the Web and elsewhere: the Uniform Resource Identifier.



The World Wide Web had a number of differences from other hypertext systems that were then available:



* The WWW required only unidirectional links rather than bidirectional ones. This made it possible for someone to link to another resource without action by the owner of that resource. It also significantly reduced the difficulty of implementing Web servers and browsers (in comparison to earlier systems), but in turn presented the chronic problem of link rot.

* Unlike predecessors such as HyperCard, the World Wide Web was non-proprietary, making it possible to develop servers and clients independently and to add extensions without licensing restrictions.



On April 30, 1993, CERN announced[3] that the World Wide Web would be free to anyone, with no fees due. Coming two months after the announcement that gopher was no longer free to use, this produced a rapid shift away from gopher and towards the Web. An early popular Web browser was ViolaWWW which was based upon HyperCard.



Scholars generally agree, however, that the turning point for the World Wide Web began with the introduction[4] of the Mosaic web browser[5] in 1993, a graphical browser developed by a team at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (NCSA-UIUC), led by Marc Andreessen. Funding for Mosaic came from the High-Performance Computing and Communications Initiative, a funding program initiated by then-Senator Al Gore's High Performance Computing and Communication Act of 1991 also known as the Gore Bill.[6]. Prior to the release of Mosaic, graphics were not commonly mixed with text in Web pages and its popularity was less than older protocols in use over the Internet, such as Gopher protocol and Wide area information server. Mosaic's graphical user interface allowed the Web to become by far the most popular Internet protocol.

Answer 24

Your ISP address and home page[browser]

Answer 25

based on user settings





intially about:blank

Answer 26

swiss national anthem

Answer 27

Not sure, but the "mirror" is here: http://www.w3.org/History/19921103-hypertext/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html

Answer 28

Probably the programmer's first choice for any new program/system...



"Hello World"

Answer 29

Phil2 is correct - the first page read "Hello World"

Answer 30

Dont know but ive tracked down the last .....................

http://home.att.net/~cecw/lastpage.htm

Answer 31

What A Q lol I Have No Idea But You Must Of Randomly THOUGHT Of It... I Do That

Answer 32

A picture of a coffee or tea pot (I forget which). The folks in the lab could see whether there was water in the pot, or whether it needed to be refilled.

Answer 33

http://www.internetfirstpage.com/



(But I suspect they're lying!)

Answer 34

page3.com

Answer 35

One that said Loading all the time, I'm sure.

Answer 36

cant remember, i think its www.com

Answer 37

here is one of the 1st if not the 1st http://www.slac.stanford.edu/history/earlyweb/firstpages.shtml

Answer 38

there wasen't one because the internet was created as a link from America to some other country and pages were created

Answer 39

my website:



www.hinnahmuteen.wetpaint.com



Problem sorter!

Answer 40

not sure sorry

Answer 41

i dont no but intresting question.

Answer 42

www.wwe.com

Answer 43

www.co.uk

Answer 44

www.beavis n' butthead.com

Answer 45

404 - page not found!!!!

Answer 46

probably: this page can not be found

Answer 47

www.welcometotheinternetmyfriends.com

Answer 48

had to have been www.starwarsfanclub.com/nerds

Answer 49

Dunno, but its still probably on here somewhere, trapped in cyberspace.

Answer 50

www.iwasthefirstwebpageontheinternetbeforeallthosebitchestookmyplace:(.com

Answer 51

dunno but it probably had a naked chick on it

Answer 52

The first recorded description of the social interactions that could be enabled through networking was a series of memos written by J.C.R. Licklider of MIT in August 1962 discussing his "Galactic Network" concept. He envisioned a globally interconnected set of computers through which everyone could quickly access data and programs from any site. In spirit, the concept was very much like the Internet of today. Licklider was the first head of the computer research program at DARPA, 4 starting in October 1962. While at DARPA he convinced his successors at DARPA, Ivan Sutherland, Bob Taylor, and MIT researcher Lawrence G. Roberts, of the importance of this networking concept.



Leonard Kleinrock at MIT published the first paper on packet switching theory in July 1961 and the first book on the subject in 1964. Kleinrock convinced Roberts of the theoretical feasibility of communications using packets rather than circuits, which was a major step along the path towards computer networking. The other key step was to make the computers talk together. To explore this, in 1965 working with Thomas Merrill, Roberts connected the TX-2 computer in Mass. to the Q-32 in California with a low speed dial-up telephone line creating the first (however small) wide-area computer network ever built. The result of this experiment was the realization that the time-shared computers could work well together, running programs and retrieving data as necessary on the remote machine, but that the circuit switched telephone system was totally inadequate for the job. Kleinrock's conviction of the need for packet switching was confirmed.



In late 1966 Roberts went to DARPA to develop the computer network concept and quickly put together his plan for the "ARPANET", publishing it in 1967. At the conference where he presented the paper, there was also a paper on a packet network concept from the UK by Donald Davies and Roger Scantlebury of NPL. Scantlebury told Roberts about the NPL work as well as that of Paul Baran and others at RAND. The RAND group had written a paper on packet switching networks for secure voice in the military in 1964. It happened that the work at MIT (1961-1967), at RAND (1962-1965), and at NPL (1964-1967) had all proceeded in parallel without any of the researchers knowing about the other work. The word "packet" was adopted from the work at NPL and the proposed line speed to be used in the ARPANET design was upgraded from 2.4 kbps to 50 kbps. 5



In August 1968, after Roberts and the DARPA funded community had refined the overall structure and specifications for the ARPANET, an RFQ was released by DARPA for the development of one of the key components, the packet switches called Interface Message Processors (IMP's). The RFQ was won in December 1968 by a group headed by Frank Heart at Bolt Beranek and Newman (BBN). As the BBN team worked on the IMP's with Bob Kahn playing a major role in the overall ARPANET architectural design, the network topology and economics were designed and optimized by Roberts working with Howard Frank and his team at Network Analysis Corporation, and the network measurement system was prepared by Kleinrock's team at UCLA. 6



Due to Kleinrock's early development of packet switching theory and his focus on analysis, design and measurement, his Network Measurement Center at UCLA was selected to be the first node on the ARPANET. All this came together in September 1969 when BBN installed the first IMP at UCLA and the first host computer was connected. Doug Engelbart's project on "Augmentation of Human Intellect" (which included NLS, an early hypertext system) at Stanford Research Institute (SRI) provided a second node. SRI supported the Network Information Center, led by Elizabeth (Jake) Feinler and including functions such as maintaining tables of host name to address mapping as well as a directory of the RFC's. One month later, when SRI was connected to the ARPANET, the first host-to-host message was sent from Kleinrock's laboratory to SRI. Two more nodes were added at UC Santa Barbara and University of Utah. These last two nodes incorporated application visualization projects, with Glen Culler and Burton Fried at UCSB investigating methods for display of mathematical functions using storage displays to deal with the problem of refresh over the net, and Robert Taylor and Ivan Sutherland at Utah investigating methods of 3-D representations over the net. Thus, by the end of 1969, four host computers were connected together into the initial ARPANET, and the budding Internet was off the ground. Even at this early stage, it should be noted that the networking research incorporated both work on the underlying network and work on how to utilize the network. This tradition continues to this day.



Computers were added quickly to the ARPANET during the following years, and work proceeded on completing a functionally complete Host-to-Host protocol and other network software. In December 1970 the Network Working Group (NWG) working under S. Crocker finished the initial ARPANET Host-to-Host protocol, called the Network Control Protocol (NCP). As the ARPANET sites completed implementing NCP during the period 1971-1972, the network users finally could begin to develop applications.



In October 1972 Kahn organized a large, very successful demonstration of the ARPANET at the International Computer Communication Conference (ICCC). This was the first public demonstration of this new network technology to the public. It was also in 1972 that the initial "hot" application, electronic mail, was introduced. In March Ray Tomlinson at BBN wrote the basic email message send and read software, motivated by the need of the ARPANET developers for an easy coordination mechanism. In July, Roberts expanded its utility by writing the first email utility program to list, selectively read, file, forward, and respond to messages. From there email took off as the largest network application for over a decade. This was a harbinger of the kind of activity we see on the World Wide Web today, namely, the enormous growth of all kinds of "people-to-people" traffic.

Answer 53

Dunno but I'll bet it was porn