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(Tuesday, August 6, 1991) — The World Wide Web became publicly available today as English computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee, 36, published the world’s first website while working at CERN, the huge particle physics lab located in the Swiss Alps.

The site featured textual information about the World Wide Web project, describing the Web and how to use it. Hosted at CERN on Berners-Lee’s NeXT computer, the site’s URL was http://info.cern.ch.

“The WorldWideWeb (W3) is a wide-area hypermedia information retrieval initiative aiming to give universal access to a large universe of documents,” the site read, going on to explain how others can create their own webpages.

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Although that page is no longer available, a later version from the following year is archived here.

Berners-Lee first proposed his idea for a worldwide network of computers sharing information in 1989. It was written on a NeXT computer, made by the company Steve Jobs founded after his ouster from Apple back in 1985.