What was the first website on the internet?
Yes, the question is open to interpretation. Answer as you think appropriate.
info.cern.ch
The first web site and the first web browser were (not really surprisingly) designed and built a the same time. The server was the CERN HTTPd (hypertext transfer protocol daemon). The browser was also the first web page editor.
(ETA) The first web site that was really publicly distributed (that I saw) was a simple test page that had links to all of the other web pages on the internet. It was a one page list with maybe a dozen entries on it. Everyone was saying hey come look at this new thing, it’s cool!
The original version of it went up in August 1991, but here’s a version from 1992 that shows what it essentially looked like:
http://www.w3.org/History/19921103-hypertext/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html
ETA: The original URL was The World Wide Web project
Sometimes I think you’re a genius; other times I think you can Google.
I seem to recall that we had a thread on this just recently, too.
Why can’t I be both?
And the second website was a porno site.
And a few minutes after that they made a way to pay by credit card online.
Well, the first image posted on the web did have a fair bit of bare female flesh.
Eh. I figured there was a REALLY good chance it was something from CERN, myself, given that the first browser was conceived there, and I’m probably not above average.