I have been trying to find out what is the address of the oldest website on the net that is still original as it was made in that time. Any ideas?
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I have been trying to find out what is the address of the oldest website on the net that is still original as it was made in that time. Any ideas?
What is the point to this adventure?
There is no point, its like life really... just an aimless time to fill with actions that makes no sense
Try these links:
Slashdot | What's the Oldest Web Page?
WWW FAQs: What was the first web site?
This one still exists:
PC Pro: News: Net archaeologists unearth world's oldest website address
This is probably the very first site that was put on something that resembles today's web:
The original proposal of the WWW, HTMLized
This is pretty much all the information on it, and talks about the foundations of things that we use today, such as hypertext.
Interesting stuff here. I didn't know that that domains were first being registered in 1985, predating the development of the WWW by several years. I'll have to do some research to see if I can find out what the reasoning was behind domains that early on. Probably for FTPing.
The first "internet" was just file transfer for the DoD, as you say Scott. But they didn't really have sites.
Many people, erroneously, think the Internet and the WWW are the same thing. They don't realize that the WWW is a superset of the Internet that is relatively new.
The Internet was an outgrowth of the old Arpanet started by the DoD to provide a way to communicate with their researchers at academic institutions. The academics started using it for a lot more that the DoD originally planned. Then Tim Berners-Lee developed the WWW to allow for a graphical communication over the Internet. From there the commercial applications (mostly porn) caused the WWW to take off into something closer to what we have today.
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