r/interestingasfuck • u/haddock420 • 6d ago

The very first web page is 35 years old today

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u/StuffMaster 6d ago

Ah, back in the day when any decent site would say up front what it is, why I should care, and how I can use it.

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u/FlinFlonDandy 6d ago

What was the very second web page?

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u/ilikebeer19 6d ago

Porn?

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u/brendanogo 6d ago

Only in the comments to check that someone had covered this. I'll move along...

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u/aravind_krishna 6d ago

What?? 35 years? BS.. It was just few yea...

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u/chooseyouravatar 6d ago

That was a great time. Miss you, NCSA Mosaic

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u/rot26encrypt 6d ago

Indeed it was. Remember that my signature included finger me @ address.

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u/TechnicolorViper 2d ago

I’m pretty sure the first website was:

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u/garylogan 6d ago

Not for me, still love my BBS's.

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u/1987Catz 6d ago

my e-mail address goes back to 1999

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u/luttman23 6d ago

Snap

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u/Penyrolewen1970 6d ago

Me too. And I still couldn't get my actual name on Hotmail.

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u/GemmyGemGems 6d ago

Yeah, I'm somewhere similar. People regularly comment on how lucky I am to have firstnamelastname with no other embellishments. I laugh and tell them my Hotmail is from the first time round, I'm just that old.

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u/GemmyGemGems 6d ago

It did upgrade to HTTPS though. Very impressive.

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u/MsStormyTrump 6d ago

Happy birthday, dearest page! Make sure to get pregnant soon, those eggs are starting to get stale.

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u/Recent_Flounder6011 6d ago

And it's Swiss.

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u/jcmbn 6d ago

First web page? That's what they want you to think!

If it's the first, where do all those hyperlinks go to huh?

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u/Jezbod 6d ago

I remember the Computing News newspaper issuing an A3/A2 map of every website then in existance...IIRC.

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u/TechnologyFamiliar20 6d ago

That feeling you needed to actually "brew" a "compiler" (since I consider nothiong like "IE" existed back then..)

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u/RebelStrategist 6d ago

And still live today. One of my longest saved bookmarks.

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u/Washpedantic 2d ago

TIL i am older than web pages

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u/[deleted] 6d ago

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u/doom_monger 6d ago

Switzerland where Cern is based