Beat this one I ran across. Last edited in 1998 & still online!
I could move this to General Questions, but it seems mundane to me.
Moved from IMHO to MPSIMS.
I can beat that. And embarrass myself in the process!
GoddessHome, my original Angelfire homepage, made via WebTV in 1997, complete with angsty teenage poetry and a “Why am I alone?!” rant!
The angsty teenage poetry wouldn’t be too bad if I hadn’t written most of it when I was between 21 and 27…
The first web server address (though with different content now): http://info.cern.ch/
This page mentions that by November 1992 there were 26 web servers in the world! It also gives the first web page address: The World Wide Web project though this address no longer works (it’s redirected to info.cern.ch. Of the content, the page says:
The 1992 copy: The World Wide Web project
You know, every time I see something like that, I wonder why nobody saw all the porn coming.
There was Internet porn in 1992 – problem was, all the pics were GIF, BMP, or Targa files, ranging in size from 500kb to 3mb, which would take over an hour per image to download over your 9600 baud modem. Computerized video was practially non-existent. So it was still more convenient to buy/rent your porn at brick-and-mortar stores, and save that precious dial-up time for downloading warez and stuff.
What nobody predicted was the exponential explosion of (1) high-compression formats, e.g. JPEG and PNG, and (2) bandwidth. Oh, and banner ads. Do you remember the Internet without banner ads? I do. 
Oh is that what they’re calling them these days? Interesting. . .
Tripler
“Brick” and “mortar”. Gotcha. :dubious:
Microsoft still has active pages going back to at least 1997.
Well, sorta. When I first got online in 1997 I could only connect at 14.4 kbps so I always set Internet Explorer to “do not show images” as a default.
Behold
The best part is that these people put this on the advertising they run. They really want people to see this!
Barrels
[quote=Sunspace]
The 1992 copy [of the first web site ever-BoD]: http://www.w3.org/History/19921103-...TheProject.htmlI like the part where it desrcibes the web as a “wide-area hypermedia information retrieval initiative.” I wonder if it would have caught on with a name like WAHIRI?
I like this one. Oh the horror!
http://web.archive.org/web/19961230204507/http://www.straightdope.com/
Janet.
…the sad part is the layout has barely changed…
As far as primitive goes, www.something.com gets my vote.
This one looks primitive even in a modern browser, but there’s apparently a redirect for truly ancient browsers using HTML 1.1, and the redirect is to a truly primitive FTP style format that hasn’t been touched since the dawn of web.
It’s one of the few web sites I can access and utilize with Samba under System 6. “Samba” in this case refers to the CERN web browser that makes Mosaic look sleek and modern, not the Unix SMB protocol stack.
Samba can open Chris Reid’s page too.
Also technically the GoddessHome page, but with, umm, aesthetically unpleasant results.
Eh. It was already aesthetically unpleasant. At least you avoid the obnoxiously multiple graphics placeholders in Samba…
How about Lynx? 
In that same vein: www.nwpump.com
In all fairness, Lynx is not an ancient browser. It’s as standards-compliant as you can get and still be a text-based browser. Witness the fact that you were able to bring up a Straight Dope in Lynx. (Can you log in via Lynx?)
Samba very definitely won’t do SDMB. Won’t do earthlink home pages. Does Google but with no way to enter a search term.