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What was the first site on the net?

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Poritz

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Just curious what the first was and what the first .com .net .org .edu . Thought some here would know or think they know.
 
The other thread said that it might have been info.cern.cz it should actually be .ch if that was indeed the first site
 
First web site was prolly a .edu, whichever college created Mosaic.

Remember, the web is relatively new in Internet terms. Before that was gopher. Kinda like web, but without links woven into text. You had text, and you had links. Seperate. Sort of like directories on an FTP site.

Ahhh, those were the days. Back when the internet was free of spam. I swear, I could browse faster at 14.4k on a terminal emulator then than I can now on 2000/384 cable. Grumble grumble.
 
Originally posted by: TerryMathews
First web site was prolly a .edu, whichever college created Mosaic.
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There was a web before mosaic. Mosaic was just the first browser to support graphics and stuff. Before it was all text based using stuff like lynx

 
Originally posted by: TerryMathews
First web site was prolly a .edu, whichever college created Mosaic.

Remember, the web is relatively new in Internet terms. Before that was gopher. Kinda like web, but without links woven into text. You had text, and you had links. Seperate. Sort of like directories on an FTP site.

Ahhh, those were the days. Back when the internet was free of spam. I swear, I could browse faster at 14.4k on a terminal emulator then than I can now on 2000/384 cable. Grumble grumble.
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What was the point though? Might as well as used morse code.
 
In 1985 I had an account at the University of Kentucky that allowed me to have an ARC account (something more archaic and more basic than Pine). It was a part of ARPA. I used the modem cartridge for the Commodore 64 to send my printouts from the fraterinity house to one of the print stations on campus. But it wasn't a site, if anything, an email digest.

As to web pages, there was an article on them in one of the first Wired magazines (1992?). I remember it because some scientist was explaining how he attached GIF files to text ( :Q ) and what a browser was...

Also, there was a book published by Que that explained the whole thing. Damn, I've got it but I don't know where it is. It came with a diskette that had version .9 of Mosaic.
 
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