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The world’s first web site – have you seen it yet?

Fact - World's first web site is still up after all these years
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The world’s first web site is still running!

On the 6th of August 1991, the world’s first web site was put online by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN in France. The site ran on the NeXT platform.

The first web page ever created still exists at http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html.

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