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The First Website Ever Made

52 points by zeeshanm 12y ago

jloughry 12y ago
The HTML style of the First Website Ever Made is interesting to read: short lines, careful line breaks, upper-case tags (and a few no-longer-seen) but no indentation. Spacing, as always, is tricky in hand-written HTML.
- cms07 12y ago
  Is there such thing as not-hand-written HTML?
  - mod 12y ago
    Program-generated HTML? WYSIWYG-editor-generated HTML?
    - cms07 12y ago
      I know there are other ways to generate it. I'm just wondering what self-respecting dev wouldn't write their own.
      - mod 12y ago
        How about a self-respecting dev using a md-to-html blog implementation?
deleted 12y ago
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prezjordan 12y ago
Responsive, fonts load quickly, tab ordering is sane - A+ Tim!
arxpoetica 12y ago
Clear love for definition lists. <dl>...<dt>...<dd>
- _cipher_ 12y ago
  And love that the first site was trully responsive. :) How I wish there were sites styled like that (no irony, and I know it doesn't has any style). Get in, grab your info, maybe see an image and get out. Good times.
anoxic 12y ago
The URL for this would much better be http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html - as this site is CERN's, not W3's
ars 12y ago
Extra /A at the end :) What is/was NEXTID?
- kalleboo 12y ago
  > What is/was NEXTID? Used by the NeXT WorldWideWeb editor to know what the next free anchor name was
ghantila 12y ago
Hey look, even then there was a <header> tag.
- bshimmin 12y ago
  But no <HTML> tag and no DOCTYPE. Things were definitely a bit woolly pre-1995, when the first proper HTML spec (version 2.0...) was published.
xerophyte12932 12y ago
How is this the first website? the subjects page has links to so many other websites....
- sp332 12y ago
  It has been updated, of course. The "W3 servers" page notes that the content hasn't changed since 1992.
- jacquesm 12y ago
  Websites can be updated after they are first created which is one of their many virtues.
Kiro 12y ago
I wonder why a line break was used after the A in the opening A tags.
bachback 12y ago
Other milestones: Post on alt.hypertext on 6/8/1991 https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/alt.hypertext/eCTkkOoWTAY/urNMgHnS2gYJ https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/alt.hypertext/eCTkkOoW... NCSA X Mosaic 0.5 released, 23/1/1993 http://1997.webhistory.org/www.lists/www-talk.1993q1/0099.html http://1997.webhistory.org/www.lists/www-talk.1993q1/0099.ht...
Souk 12y ago
In the to-do list (http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/Bugs.html http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/Bugs.html): "Search engines : Now the web of data and indexes exists, some really smart intelligent algorithms ("knowbots?") could run on it. Recursive index and link tracing, Just think... "

52 points by zeeshanm 12y ago

The HTML style of the First Website Ever Made is interesting to read: short lines, careful line breaks, upper-case tags (and a few no-longer-seen) but no indentation. Spacing, as always, is tricky in hand-written HTML.

cms07 12y ago
Is there such thing as not-hand-written HTML?
- mod 12y ago
  Program-generated HTML? WYSIWYG-editor-generated HTML?
  - cms07 12y ago
    I know there are other ways to generate it. I'm just wondering what self-respecting dev wouldn't write their own.
    - mod 12y ago
      How about a self-respecting dev using a md-to-html blog implementation?

deleted 12y ago

[deleted]

prezjordan 12y ago

Responsive, fonts load quickly, tab ordering is sane - A+ Tim!

arxpoetica 12y ago

Clear love for definition lists. <dl>...<dt>...<dd>

_cipher_ 12y ago
And love that the first site was trully responsive. :) How I wish there were sites styled like that (no irony, and I know it doesn't has any style). Get in, grab your info, maybe see an image and get out. Good times.

anoxic 12y ago

The URL for this would much better be http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html - as this site is CERN's, not W3's

ars 12y ago

Extra /A at the end :) What is/was NEXTID?

kalleboo 12y ago
> What is/was NEXTID? Used by the NeXT WorldWideWeb editor to know what the next free anchor name was

ghantila 12y ago

Hey look, even then there was a <header> tag.

bshimmin 12y ago
But no <HTML> tag and no DOCTYPE. Things were definitely a bit woolly pre-1995, when the first proper HTML spec (version 2.0...) was published.

xerophyte12932 12y ago

How is this the first website? the subjects page has links to so many other websites....

sp332 12y ago
It has been updated, of course. The "W3 servers" page notes that the content hasn't changed since 1992.
jacquesm 12y ago
Websites can be updated after they are first created which is one of their many virtues.

Kiro 12y ago

I wonder why a line break was used after the A in the opening A tags.

bachback 12y ago

Other milestones: Post on alt.hypertext on 6/8/1991 https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/alt.hypertext/eCTkkOoWTAY/urNMgHnS2gYJ https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/alt.hypertext/eCTkkOoW... NCSA X Mosaic 0.5 released, 23/1/1993 http://1997.webhistory.org/www.lists/www-talk.1993q1/0099.html http://1997.webhistory.org/www.lists/www-talk.1993q1/0099.ht...

Souk 12y ago

In the to-do list (http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/Bugs.html http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/Bugs.html): "Search engines : Now the web of data and indexes exists, some really smart intelligent algorithms ("knowbots?") could run on it. Recursive index and link tracing, Just think... "