Internet is 20 years old. The first web page on the CERN site | PHOTO - World Information

Into The Internet has twenty years. On 30 April 1993, the CERN in Geneva, which was already using the new technology in house, he published the very first web page of history by opening the “WWW” to all the World. Since then, the Internet has made leaps and bounds, becoming inseparable companion in everyday life of each of us.

Into To celebrate twenty years of Internet CERN in Geneva has decided to republish the historic first web page on their site.

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At the address Into http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html it is possible to revise that first simple page.

Into White background, black lettering, hyperlinks. Nothing more and nothing less. A real, simple, presentation of an innovative project that could literally change the world.

Into “Wold Wide Web” is the title of the first internet page of the story. Immediately below the subtitle “The WorldWideWeb (W3) is a wide-area hypermedia information retrieval initiative aiming to give universal access to a large universe of documents. “

Into followed a series of further explanation and many hyperlinks on details, and historical references of the draft prepared by CERN.

Into the Internet (contraction of the words Interconnetted newtworks, that is “interconnected networks”) was born in the Sixties in the United States Army as a secret project. Its purpose was to facilitate the rapid exchange of data, fundamental need in times of the Cold War.

Into The first official publication in which it was theorized a worldwide network came out in 1962 on the basis of the studies of researchers at MIT in Boston Licklider and Clark.

Into After a series of projects, from Arpanet (1969, USA) in Cyclades (France) and NORSAR (Norway). The first connection in Italy took place instead April 30, 1986, at the University of Pisa.

Into In 1991 began the decisive phase for the extension of the mass of the Internet, thanks to CERN in Geneva. The researcher Tim Berners-Lee defined the HTTP protocol, the first system capable of linking hyperlinks in a non-sequential. Soon after came Mosaic, the first browser history. It was now the time is ripe and 30 April 1993, CERN published his first official web page. Internet was born and since then, as we all know, it was a genuine revolution, not only technological.

Into Happy Birthday Internet, technology is still young and growing! Of revolution in the revolution.