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[Captain_Thunder]

Does anyone know of the oldest website on the internet that is still up? It would be kind of interesting to visit.

[Saint_Michael]

could ask the government since the intranet/internet started out with them before anyone else, but i know gamefaqs.com is 10 years old same with lordsofpain.net as well, but anything earlier then that i couldn't tell you.

[DreamCore]

lol, I have never considered about that. Yea I agree it would be interesting to know that. And I would like to visit it. Hope someones knows that. But I think microsoft had their first website beacuse Bill gates invented I think Internet Explorer.

[Captain_Thunder]

I believe that there were browsers before Internet Explorer; they might have been text only though. I'll poke around on the government websites and see what I can find...

[ankushbhargava]

interesting read here - oldest web page

[rvalkass]

According to most people, symbolics.com is the oldest registered domain, registered on 15th March 1985.
Some people also say that http://info.cern.ch/ is the oldest site, although you can no longer access it. That was Burners-Lee's test server.
Microsoft obviously claims it was them, supposedly generating help pages that were fetched off of the Internet.
The military is also an obvious choice, and although some of the original information is probably still available, the general public can't really access it!

I don't think anyone really thought of documenting it at the time, so I don't think we will ever know the true answer, we can only guess.

[Plenoptic]

That is a really good question. I would like to know that as well. My first thought was also that Microsoft is the oldest web site but then I remembered about the military. I bet the first original web site was a test and is already gone but it is hard to tell which was the first ever created. Might have to try contacting the government and see if they have the record of one.

[Tyssen]

Captain_Thunder, on Dec 19 2005, 03:14 AM, said:

I believe that there were browsers before Internet Explorer

Mosaic had two versions of its browser out before Internet Explorer version 1 - browser timelines.

[Mistikpso]

thats intersting that IE1 wasnt the first....*thinks* so if mosaic was the first what was the first was symbolics or that other place have mosiac as a defualt browser......only if we could check the sources in the 1990's

[round]

you might find what your looking for here.
http://www.boutell.c.../firstsite.html
and here is a history of web browsers
http://www.livingint...w/wi_browse.htm
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