# Oldest known web site in existence

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 28, 2004, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-known-web-site-in-existence/242502 "2004-04-28T16:26:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![dwc1970](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@dwc1970](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwc1970)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2004, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-known-web-site-in-existence/242502/1 "2004-04-28T16:26:46Z")

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Does anyone know what is the oldest known web site in existence? By “oldest”, I don’t just mean which web site has been around the longest, but if there are any sites or pages that were created several years ago but have never been updated since their creation, or at least not within several years? This question came up in an email and I thought I would ask here.

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**Author:** ![RM\_Mentock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e274bd/32.png) [@RM\_Mentock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RM_Mentock)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2004, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-known-web-site-in-existence/242502/2 "2004-04-28T16:44:36Z")

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[Paul Jones](http://www.ibiblio.org/pjones/), at the Univ. of North Carolina, has saved a [copy of a webpage](http://www.ibiblio.org/pjones/old.page.html) that [Tim Berners-Lee set up a long time ago](http://www.ibiblio.org/history/).

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**Author:** ![chorpler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chorpler/32/2888_2.png) [@chorpler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chorpler)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2004, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-known-web-site-in-existence/242502/3 "2004-04-28T16:46:06Z")

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Well, one of the sites for a palmtop computer I used to use hasn’t been updated in four years and one month now. How’s that?

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**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2004, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-known-web-site-in-existence/242502/4 "2004-04-28T18:00:05Z")

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My [very first website](http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/leathermaker/) is still up, even though I haven’t even had an account with the service for two years, and two years ago, it was out of date. It was made using Word 97, and it looks like all of the links on it are dead.

How long ago were we using that ubbi-board here?

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**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2004, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-known-web-site-in-existence/242502/5 "2004-04-28T18:00:12Z")

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I would have thought it was [algore.com](http://algore.com). 😃