CERN to restore first webpage in the history of Internet
Baku, May 2 (AZERTAC). The first-ever webpage in the history of Internet will be restored by the specialists of European Centre for Nuclear Research (CERN) to mark the 20th anniversary of World Wide Web (www), a spokesperson of the organization said.
According to him, the CERN specialists have already started the restoration of the webpage, with which the history of Internet began. “We intend to return this page back into web, so that internet-developers and other people even 100 years later could read the first webpage created by the World Wide Web team, with which everything began,” he said. World Wide Web as created in 1989 by the British scientist Tim Berners-Lee, who worked at CERN.
CERN may be best known for its hunt for the Higgs Boson, but a team at the organization are also tracking down internet history, working to restore the first ever website to its original URL and server. The project, which will see the European Organization for Nuclear Research restore World Wide Web founder Tim Berners-Lee`s first page to info.cern.ch, requires rebuilding the site pretty much from scratch, as no screenshots of the original exist.
Making the challenge even harder is the fact that the site itself was an evolving project, not a stable page, as Berners-Lee and his WWW team updated it as the user-friendly web developed. Since then, the URL has been used for more general information about Berners-Lee`s work.
