Oldest Website?

Captain_Thunder

Dec 18 2005, 04:03 PM

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

Saint_Michael

Dec 18 2005, 04:15 PM

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

Dec 18 2005, 04:18 PM

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

Dec 18 2005, 05:14 PM

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

Dec 18 2005, 06:14 PM

interesting read here - oldest web page

rvalkass

Dec 18 2005, 08:55 PM

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

Dec 18 2005, 09:07 PM

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

Dec 18 2005, 09:54 PM

QUOTE(Captain_Thunder @ Dec 19 2005, 03:14 AM)

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

Dec 18 2005, 11:34 PM

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

Dec 19 2005, 04:26 AM

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

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iGuest

Jul 3 2008, 06:45 PM

IE Free?
Oldest Website?

I think you've got this back to front friend. Netscape was free and IE cost. That's why there was a "browser war" and Netscape nearly won it.

In the end most of the others had to give them away for free. Microsoft joined in and were better able to absorb the cost. In those days the funding of the internet was uncertain and most of the developers probably assumed that they'd make money from advertising.

Mark

-reply by Mark

iGuest

Jun 9 2008, 11:32 PM

Can you suggest me a site where I can see the formation of website dates?

-reply by Saugot Chowdhury

thecolorchangingfedora

May 17 2008, 02:02 AM

Yeeesh, I'm confused. So many different "first ever websites". I guess it's something that will be debated more and more as time goes on?

k4m1k4z3

May 2 2008, 07:32 AM

I'm pretty sure this could also be It's been up since 1994.

http://www.w3.org/Consortium/

http://www.w3.org/

QUOTE

Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director and inventor of the World Wide Web

Hagebyhemdata

May 1 2008, 10:26 PM

Mosaic is the oldest, but remember the old times when Netscape was on talk and you had to bought a license in order to use it. But when Microsoft released their third or four for free, the other had to follow the lead, but i guess opera was the last one of the web browser to become completly free of charge, correct me if I am wrong. But back to the topic, I was brainstorming about the oldest website i could remember, and Iconbazaar popped up in my head. I couldn't find any information about how old that site is but i recon almost 10-12 years at least.

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