World Wide Web

Search is on for lost first draft of first Web page

23 May 2013

Tim Berners-Lee in 1994 at CERN. (Credit: CERN) The first draft of the World Wide Web has gone missing, with perhaps one of the only copies of the very first Web site floating around the world's drawers or attics on a floppy disk somewhere. Tim Berners-Lee wrote the first version of the very first Web page back in 1990 as a way for scientists to share information at CERN -- the European nuclear ...

How to celebrate World Turtle Day Down Under

23 May 2013

May 23rd is World Turtle Day. Oh, you didn’t know? What, have you been hiding your head like a tortoise? Okay, I didn’t know either until the day actually arrived and I discovered it by surfing the World Wide Web in search of environmental stuff to blog about. There simply was not enough time to

The First Web Page, Amazingly, Is Lost

22 May 2013

Ironically, there's one piece of Web history that can't be found online: the very first page. Now, a team at the lab where the World Wide Web was born is on a hunt for old hard drives and floppy disks that might hold copies of the missing files.