# What was the first website? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [October 27, 2001, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-website/89965 "2001-10-27T15:17:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![hidon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/d78d45/32.png) [@hidon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hidon)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2001, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-website/89965/1 "2001-10-27T15:17:17Z")
What was it, anyway? Is it still up? Can I go there? ---
**Author:** ![Terminus\_Est](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terminus_est/32/3087_2.png) [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2001, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-website/89965/2 "2001-10-27T15:58:55Z")
Well, since the World Wide Web was [invented](http://public.web.cern.ch/Public/ACHIEVEMENTS/web.html) by Tim Berners-Lee while working at CERN, the first website was probably his home page. There’s no mention of it anywhere on the CERN website, at least that I can find, but there’s a [picture](http://public.web.cern.ch/Public/ACHIEVEMENTS/WEB/history.html) of Berners-Lee in front of a monitor displaying what appears to be an early, if not the first, web page. That particular machine is probably long gone by now. ---
**Author:** ![hidon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/d78d45/32.png) [@hidon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hidon)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2001, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-website/89965/3 "2001-10-27T16:01:31Z")
Thank you for answering my question. For a second there I thought it would be pushed off the page. ---
**Author:** ![DarrenS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/977dab/32.png) [@DarrenS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DarrenS)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2001, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-website/89965/4 "2001-10-27T16:24:02Z")
We already did this question [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=14702). ---
**Author:** ![ski](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@ski](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ski)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2001, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-website/89965/5 "2001-10-28T16:52:02Z")
I especially like this quote from the CERN website referenced above: “In 1997, with more than 650,000 servers and 1,000 new ones appearing every day, the Web is set to become as familiar as the telephone” Um, yeah. I think it succeeded. Time to update the web page, I think.