10 Web Facts for you
Jan 24
Okay okay, I posted this on my long forgotten blog and I kinda love to share it again to you guys for the benefit of the many who wasn’t able to see it. Here it goes again 
10. How does Microsoft’s first-ever website looks like?
Page views per day: 124,655
Number of Servers: 3
Microsoft’s website in the early 90′s is totally primitive than what you can see in their website today. Looks like it’s really hard to create a website during those times I guess but at least they have a humble beginning
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9. The first popular world wide web browser?
In February 1993, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign released the first version of Mosaic, which was to make the Web available to people using PCs and Apple Macintoshes.
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8. The first-ever Web Server?
The historic NeXT computer used by Tim Berners-Lee in 1990, on display in the Microcosm exhibition at CERN. It was the first web server, hypermedia browser and web editor.
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7. World’s first-ever Web Page address?
It was
http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html
which is now offline and redirects to info.cern.ch but the good thing is there’s a copy saved here
http://www.w3.org/History/19921103-hypertext/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html
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6. World’s first-ever Web Site?
http://info.cern.ch
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5. First Universal Line-Mode Browser?
This is a screenshot of the 1990′s first universal line mode browser that allowed anyone access to the Web regardless of the kind of computer system used. Without the use of this, Tim’s vision will not work since a website is like a telephone, if there’s just one then it’s not much of use. The NeXT systems however were far advanced over the computers people generally had at their disposal: a far less sophisticated piece of software was needed for distribution which is this “the universal line mode browser”. It was designed to work simply by typing commands. There was no mouse, no graphics, just plain text, but it allowed anyone with an Internet connection access to the information on the Web.
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4. Creator of the Line Mode Browser?
Shown here in 1991 with Berners-Lee and the Next computer is Nicola Pellow, who wrote the line-mode browser for the Web.
Nicola Pellow, a math student interning at CERN wrote a line-mode web browser that would work on any device, even a teletype. In 1991, Nicola and the team ported the browser to a range of computers, from Unix to Microsoft DOS, so that anyone could access the web, at that point consisting primarily of the CERN phone book. She was a member of the WWW Project at CERN, working with Tim Berners-Lee. She joined the project in November 1990, while an undergraduate maths student at Leicester Polytechnic (now De Montfort University).
Almost immediately after Berners-Lee completed the WorldWideWeb browser for the NeXT platform, Pellow wrote a generic Line-mode browser called WWW that could run on non-NeXT systems.
She left CERN at the end of August 1991, but returned after graduating in 1992, and worked with Robert Cailliau on MacWWW, a browser for the Mac.
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3. The first ever Web Browser/Editor?
In 1990, Tim Berners-Lee put together at CERN for the development of the first Browser/Editor, called WorldWideWeb, in making it an interactive medium, the problem was that it only ran on the NeXTStep operating system.
This screen shot was taken in 1993 from a NeXT computer. As one can see, there is not much of a difference between these windows and the appearance of today’s browsers.
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2. The first ever Web Surfer?
Robert Cailliau, a Systems Engineer at CERN who joined in on Tim’s proposal and soon became its number one advocate and its very first web surfer.
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1. Who created the World Wide Web?
Tim Berners-Lee – a physicist at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research wrote a proposal for information management showing how information could be transferred easily over the Internet by using hypertext, the now familiar point-and-click system of navigating through information which is the World Wide Web in March 1989.
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