Worlds first websites
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- robbob
I know Organic.com had a lot to do with the beginnings of the web as we know it (as opposed to the military tool, berners-lee experiment type thing) - what were the first commercial websites and search engines? Yahoo? At&T? Any ideas?
- GeorgiePorgie0
Newstoday.com dude, they have been in on it since Day One. They just waited for the right moment.
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- GeorgiePorgie0
so nobody bloody hell knows then
- Luckypp0
I have no idea. There was such an explosion when the web "really caught on".
A better way to check this would be to look at which company's had intranet sites first - a lot of companies used them before public web sites, granted they are archaic by today's standards.
- UndoUndo0
i'd be really interested to know the answer to this question
- rabattski0
my bet:
http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/why? copy/paste:
in '91 or in '92 http 0.9 / www was released by cern.
in '93 marc andreessen and ncsa and the university of illinois develops a graphical user interface to the ww, called mosaic for x.
that site linked above is the ncsa @ uni of illinois. i assume they had at least one of the first websites since they came up with the first browser.
and i was there when the first browser hit the internet.
as said before after that it went in an exponential boom.
- del_razor0
actually.. yeah.. that would be one of the first graphical sites rendered in a "browser"
before that was gopher and telnet..
i remember getting mosaic up and running for the first time.. and thinking HOLY CRAP! there's an image on my screen instead of just text!
- dbloc0
symbolics.com is indeed the oldest registered host. However, Internet Archive has been archiving the Web since 1996. So, our earliest copies of Web date around 1996.
- o11w0
- dbloc0
The first search engine created was Archie, created in 1990 by Alan Emtage, a student at McGill University in Montreal.
- rabattski0
we're mixing things up here. yeah i'm aware of gopher and archie. the question is what is the first website. so website, web, world wide web, www protocol, http protocol. that's after '91 and prolly after '93 since there wasn't a webbrowser before '93.
- dbloc0
not sure exactly what you are talking about.......
- dbloc0
Tim Berners-Lee wrote the first web browser and the first web server. Tim Berners-Lee invented both the HTML markup language and the HTTP protocol used to request and transmit web pages between web servers and web browsers, in addition to coining the phrase "World Wide Web."
- rabattski0
lmao @ janne.
tim berners lee wrote the hypertext protocol which was released by cern. he didn't write a web browser.
at this point it was just a protocol. nothing more.
the first http browser was developed by andreesen / ncsa in '93.
netscape could be possibly be the first commercial website as well.
- rabattski0
whoah! didn't know that. though the dude only wrote the protocol! thanks for informing me proper. learned something new today.
- rabattski0
dbloc, i don't understand one thing though, if he wrote the first browser in '90 according to w3, why is it that the http 0.9 protocol was defined in '92?
or did he write it in '90 as well and was it officially released in '92?
- vwsung18t0
ask al gore, he'll know