Happy vicennial to the World Wide Web

At the time, Lee was a contractor at CERN, the European nuclear research organization and had access to the largest Internet node on the continent.

The Internet, back then, consisted of computers being able to talk to each other. Lee proposed the WWW system, which would give users a way to access various information sources, from whatever computer they were on using hyperlinks.

Thanks to the WWW, typing in a web address actually leads you to that site's servers, and a visual page.

The first ever website was a part of info.cern.ch and was just an info page with links. You can view a cached version of that page here: The first web page

For more info on the start of the WWW, check here: http://info.cern.ch/