The World's First Web Site Celebrates 25 Years Online (info.cern.ch)

An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNN: Twenty-five years ago, the first public website went live. It was a helpful guide to this new thing called the World Wide Web. The minimalist design featured black text with blue links on a white background. It's still online today if you'd like to click around and check out the frequently asked questions or geek out over the technical protocols.
Its original URL was info.cern.ch, where CERN is now also offering a line-mode browser simulator and more information about the birth of the web. CNN is also hosting screenshots of nine web "pioneers", including the Darwin Awards site, the original Yahoo, and the San Francisco FogCam, which claims to be the oldest webcam still in operation.

What are some of the first web sites that you remember reading? (Any greybeards remember when the Internet Movie Database was just a Usenet newsgroup where readers collaborated on a giant home-made list of movie credits?)

Comments

Summary is wrong

[Anonymous Coward]

The minimalist design featured black text with blue links on a white background.

The pages uses the default background, text and link color.
Those are white, black and blue in many browsers but by no means all.
If you set one of them, make sure you set all of them, otherwise your text or links could end up the same as the background color and become unreadable.

Re:And no slashdot effect?

[nukenerd]

Well prepared, well prepared.

No preparation needed, it just has no baggage. It's a long time since I saw a page load so fast.