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The first website went live in 1991

Tim Berners-Lee published the world's first web page at CERN to explain the World Wide Web project

The world's first website was hosted on a NeXT computer at CERN by British scientist Tim Berners-Lee in 1991. The page explained how the World Wide Web worked and how users could set up their own web servers. The original web address was made publicly accessible to provide information about the network.

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: Tim Berners-Lee published the world's first web page at CERN to explain the World Wide Web project. The figure is taken from CERN, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a technology fact?: Yes. It sits on the Technology shelf, one of 1,090 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.