CERN Celebrates 20 Years of an Open Web (and Rebuilds 1st Web Page)

Posted by timothy on Tuesday April 30, 2013 @02:46AM from the well-it's-done-okay dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Twenty years ago CERN published a statement that made the World Wide Web ('W3,' or simply 'the web') technology available on a royalty-free basis. By making the software required to run a web server freely available, along with a basic browser and a library of code, the web was allowed to flourish." Reader Rambo Tribble adds that CERN "is recreating the very first web page to ever exist. Included in the effort are plans to use the original hardware, as well as software, that gave birth to our beloved WWW."

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Re:I wonder whether Lamar Smith by Antipater · 2013-04-30 02:59 · Score: 3, Insightful

Who gives a fuck what some luser thinks?
I do, and you should too.

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Re:Next Project by tgd · 2013-04-30 03:19 · Score: 3, Insightful

The first porn site restored . . .
Surely, this is archived somewhere.
The first porn site would far pre-date this -- there were plenty of "story" porn sites running on Gopher servers, FTP sites, BBS sites running via telnet, newsgroups.
The Internet was full of porn for a very long time before HTTP came around.