25th Birthday? The World Wide Web - web sites, the internet, that whole thing. Remember about fifteen years ago when people actually thought that it might catch on? Fools!
More at the UK Telegraph:
The world's first website went online 25 years ago today
On this day 25 years ago the world's first website went live to the public. The site, created by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, was a basic text page with hyperlinked words that connected to other pages.
Berners-Lee used the public launch to outline his plan for the service, which would come to dominate life in the twenty-first century.
"The WWW project merges the techniques of information retrieval and hypertext to make an easy but powerful global information system," said Berners-Lee on the world's first public website. "The project started with the philosophy that much academic information should be freely available to anyone."
The address of the first website is here http://info.cern.ch/ and people are reviving it - nice to see such a critical piece of history being taken care of.
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