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On June 8th 1991, the World Wide Web project was announced to the world where the
man himself described it:
The WWW project was started to allow high energy physicists to share data, news, and
documentation. We are very interested in spreading the web to other areas, and having
gateway servers for other data.
On August 6, 1991 the world's first web page was launched. A copy of the site is still
available.
Boring, perhaps, but this is the world's first website. The page outlined the plans for the
World Wide Web. It was also this year that HTML was born and the first publicly
available description of HTML was released. Some of these tags are still in use today, such
as h1-h6 tags, paragraph tags and anchor tags. If we take a look at the source code from the
world's first web page, we can see some of these in use.
01 <HEADER>
02 <TITLE>The World Wide Web project</TITLE>
03 <NEXTID N="55">
04 </HEADER>
05 <BODY>
06 <H1>World Wide Web</H1>The WorldWideWeb (W3) is a wide-area<A
07 NAME=0 HREF="WhatIs.html">
08 hypermedia</A> information retrieval
09 initiative aiming to give universal
10 access to a large universe of documents.<P>
11 Everything there is online about
12 W3 is linked directly or indirectly
13 to this document, including an <A
14 NAME=24 HREF="Summary.html">executive
15 summary</A>
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