The First Website Ever Made

anoxic · on Jan 1, 2015

The URL for this would much better be http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html - as this site is CERN's, not W3's

prezjordan · on Jan 1, 2015

Responsive, fonts load quickly, tab ordering is sane - A+ Tim!

xerophyte12932 · on Jan 1, 2015

How is this the first website? the subjects page has links to so many other websites....

sp332 · on Jan 1, 2015

It has been updated, of course. The "W3 servers" page notes that the content hasn't changed since 1992.

jacquesm · on Jan 1, 2015

Websites can be updated after they are first created which is one of their many virtues.

Souk · on Jan 1, 2015

In the to-do list (http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/Bugs.html): "Search engines : Now the web of data and indexes exists, some really smart intelligent algorithms ("knowbots?") could run on it. Recursive index and link tracing, Just think... "

ghantila · on Jan 1, 2015

Hey look, even then there was a <header> tag.

bshimmin · on Jan 1, 2015

But no <HTML> tag and no DOCTYPE. Things were definitely a bit woolly pre-1995, when the first proper HTML spec (version 2.0...) was published.

bachback · on Jan 1, 2015

Other milestones:

Post on alt.hypertext on 6/8/1991

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/alt.hypertext/eCTkkOoW...

NCSA X Mosaic 0.5 released, 23/1/1993

http://1997.webhistory.org/www.lists/www-talk.1993q1/0099.ht...

jloughry · on Jan 1, 2015

The HTML style of the First Website Ever Made is interesting to read: short lines, careful line breaks, upper-case tags (and a few no-longer-seen) but no indentation.

Spacing, as always, is tricky in hand-written HTML.

cms07 · on Jan 1, 2015

Is there such thing as not-hand-written HTML?

mod · on Jan 1, 2015

Program-generated HTML?

WYSIWYG-editor-generated HTML?

cms07 · on Jan 1, 2015

I know there are other ways to generate it. I'm just wondering what self-respecting dev wouldn't write their own.

mod · on Jan 2, 2015

How about a self-respecting dev using a md-to-html blog implementation?

Kiro · on Jan 1, 2015

I wonder why a line break was used after the A in the opening A tags.

arxpoetica · on Jan 1, 2015

Clear love for definition lists. <dl>...<dt>...<dd>

_cipher_ · on Jan 1, 2015

And love that the first site was trully responsive. :)

How I wish there were sites styled like that (no irony, and I know it doesn't has any style). Get in, grab your info, maybe see an image and get out.

Good times.

ars · on Jan 1, 2015

Extra /A at the end :)

What is/was NEXTID?

kalleboo · on Jan 1, 2015

> What is/was NEXTID?

Used by the NeXT WorldWideWeb editor to know what the next free anchor name was