Earliest URL

Thanks for restoring some early web pages at CERN. Unfortunately you
haven't restored the earliest URL, as mentioned by TimBL in his FAQ:

    Q: What was the first web page?

    A: Apart from local "file:" URLs on my machine (which was the first
browser as well as the first server), the first http one (end of 1990) was
basically

    http://nxoc01.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html

    An alias was made so that this was later known as

    http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html

http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/FAQ.html#Examples

As I recall, "nxoc01" stands for "NeXT Online Controls 01", and this
subdomain is not presently active. Of course, serving nxoc01.cern.ch from
an actual NeXT cube behind some kind of powerful cache would be preferable
if you have the resources to do so.

-- 
Sean B. Palmer, http://inamidst.com/sbp/

Received on Wednesday, 1 May 2013 17:34:58 UTC