The World Wide Web turns 25 today!

The internet and World Wide Web turns 25-years-old today as on this day in 1991 Sir Tim Berners-Lee pressed the most important button in history.

The English computer scientist is the inventor of the World Wide Web after creating a proposal for an information management system in March 1989. He implemented the first successful communication between a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) client and server via the internet.

The very first website was built at what was the largest Internet node in Europe called CERN. The first web page went live on Aug. 6, 1991, and it can still be visited. Info.cern.ch was the world’s first-ever website and web server.

The first web page address was http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html, which offered information about the WWW project. Visitors could learn all sorts of useful information about hypertext, technical details for creating their own web page and how to search the web for information.

A nifty website allows you to go back in time and see what web pages looked like over the years. We have included some popular websites from way back when!