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  • Jun 17, 2007, 11:31 PM
    ShaunG
    Oldest website?
    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?
  • Jun 17, 2007, 11:40 PM
    benn11
    What is the point to this adventure?
  • Jun 17, 2007, 11:55 PM
    ShaunG
    There is no point, its like life really... just an aimless time to fill with actions that makes no sense
  • Jun 18, 2007, 12:01 AM
    Curlyben
    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
  • Jun 18, 2007, 12:02 AM
    Capuchin
    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.
  • Jun 18, 2007, 05:55 AM
    ScottGem
    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.
  • Jun 18, 2007, 08:44 AM
    Capuchin
    The first "internet" was just file transfer for the DoD, as you say Scott. But they didn't really have sites.
  • Jun 18, 2007, 09:06 AM
    ScottGem
    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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