Which is the first website of the world?

Today we will look into the history of internet. So, have you ever thought, who is the inventor of internet, which is the first website of world?, which is the oldest registered .com domain? This article will answer all these questions. Tim Berners-Lee, a scientist at CERN, invented the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1989. The earlier aim of world wide web was to meet the demand for automatic information sharing between scientists working in different universities and institutes all over the world. Cern is an European Organization for Nuclear Research, which has more than 2,500 employees, as well as some 7,931 scientists and engineers from different parts of the world.

Let’s see the screenshot of first and oldest website of the world :: These screen shots were taken from a NeXT computer running Tim Berners-Lee’s original WorldWideWeb browser.

Tim Berners-Lee’s original WorldWideWeb browser in 1993 (click on the image to enlarge)

Screenshot of the first website :: (Click on the image to enlarge)

The first ever web browser was also an editor, making the web an interactive medium, the problem was that it only ran on the NeXTStep operating system. With recent phenomena like blogs and wikis, the web is beginning to develop the kind of collaborative nature that its inventor envisaged from the start.

The First Domain Name :: Symbolics.com is the first domain name ever registered on the Internet. It was registered on 15th March, 1985 by a computer manufacturer firm called Symbolics. On March 15, 2010, Symbolics.com will celebrate its 25th year. This year, in September Symbolics.com has been sold to XF.com Investments. Now a days, Aron Meystedt, owner of XF.com is using this domain for his personal blog. where he writes about business, domain names and life in general.

This is list of Top 100 oldest domain names ranked according to their registration date ::