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What's the Oldest Web Page?
baconrecorder asks: "Yet another useless question among others that sometimes cross my mind wasting brain cycles. Is it possible to find out and certify what is the oldest web page still online, i.e. static web page whose corresponding file has the oldest absolute creation date (or,more stringently, the oldest absolute modify date) on the hosting server? For all the web philologists out there."
Why don't you ask Tim?
He's still alive.
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Well, it's a tie between any one of the hundreds of webpages I've seen that were Last Modified: 12:00am January 1, 1970
-"Zow"
I know that this isn't terribly helpful, but I actually found this out a few months ago. The bummer is that I can't find it again. It was a page affiliated with Tim Berners-Lee or the W3C. (Or was it on CERN's site?) But it was the #1, very first, no-question-about-it page on the web. It exists. It's out there. Anybody know where?
-Waldo
Sorry guys, NSCA Mosaic was not the first Web browser. It wasn't even the first GUI Web browser. Instead, that honor goes to WorldWideWeb.app on NeXTSTEP.
Therefore, the oldest Web pages may still exist on Tim Berners-Lee's old NeXT cube, but it's not on the Web anymore. Thinking back to the first Web page you saw doesn't help you find the oldest page still on the Web, unless it's still available.
At Mr. Berners-Lee's homepage there is an FAQ that includes some Examples of early WWW hypertext. It would appear to be from 1990 or 1991. That's about as early as it gets I would think!
This is the oldest file on my web site.
-rw-r--r-- 1 nelson root 35867 Jul 31 1994 packet_driver.html
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www.w3c.org or a *.mil page or something... I think it'd be difficult to determine because there'd be no listing on major web indexes based on dates to my knowledge. I'd bank on it being an edu or gov related site.
its not this one
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