On August 6,1991, at the CERN facility in the Swiss ALps, Tim Berners-Lee, a 36-year-old physicist, published the first-ever website. Compared to todays standards, it was a very basic one-according to CERN: Info.cern.ch was the world’s first-ever web site and web server, running on a NeXT computer at CERN.

The first web page address was http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html , which centered on information regarding the WWW project. There are no screenshots of the original page and, in any case, changes were made daily to the information available on the page as the WWW project developed. In 1994, Berners-Lee founded the World Wide Web Consortium (referred to as “W3C”) at MIT in order to create standards for the web to ensure that different websites would all work the same way, and at 56 Berners-Lee is still the director of the W3C.