[ShaunG]

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?

[benn11]

What is the point to this adventure?

[ShaunG]

There is no point, its like life really... just an aimless time to fill with actions that makes no sense

[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

[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.

[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.

[Capuchin]

The first "internet" was just file transfer for the DoD, as you say Scott. But they didn't really have sites.

[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.