Wednesday, 15 April 2015

The first 10 websites in the history of internet

1.CERN(1991)

The link is a snapshot of the CERN site, the first website, as of November 1992. The Web was publicly announced (via a posting to the Usenet newsgroup alt.hypertext) on August 6, 1991.

2.World Wide Web Virtual Library(1991)

Originally Tim Berners-Lee's web catalog at CERN.

3.Stanford Linear Accelerator Center(1991)

Paul Kunz from SLAC visited Tim Berners-Lee at CERN in September 1991. He was impressed by the WWW project and brought a copy of the software back to Stanford. SLAC launched the first web server in North America on December 12, 1991.

4.ACME Laboratories(1991)

A free software site, created by Jeffrey Poskanzer, who created the compact web server thttpd. It is still active today.

5.National Center for Supercomputing Applications(1992)

The National Center for Supercomputing Applications site was an early home to the NCSA Mosaic web browser, as well as documentation on the web and a "What's New?" list which many people used as an early web directory.

6.Fermilab(1992)

Second web server in North America, following in the trend of high-energy physics laboratories.

7.SunSITE(1992)

Early, comprehensive archiving project. Project as a whole started in 1992 and was quick to move to the web.

8.Ohio State University [Department of Computer and Information Science](1992)

Early development of gateway programs, and mass conversion of existing documents, including RFCs, TeXinfo, UNIX man pages, and the Usenet FAQs.
By the end of 1993, there were 623 websites, according to a study by MIT Researcher Matthew Gray.

9.Bloomberg.com(1993)

Financial portal with information on markets, currency conversion, news and events, and Bloomberg Terminal subscriptions.


10.Doctor Fun(1993)

One of the first webcomics, noted by the NCSA as "a major breakthrough for the Web".

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