The World Wide Web turned 20 years old today. Back on April 30th, 1993, the Web went public for everyone to use and two decades later CERN, the organization that brought us the Web, has brought the first website back to life at its original web address. Although technically the first website was launched in 1991, it was on April 30th, 1993 that CERN made the WWW technology available on a royalty-free basis.
The website, obviously very scarce by today’s standards, contains only text explaining some of the basics of the World Wide Web. It was originally available at this address — http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html — but for many years that URL has been redirecting to http://info.cern.ch. Now, CERN has dug up a 1992 copy of the site — the earliest it could find — and put it back online at its original address.
CERN employees will keep trying to find an earlier copy; in the meantime, you can browse through it and see what the World Wide Web (all of it) was like in 1992.