On August 6, 1991, the first web page went live. Tim Berners-Lee created it to provide information about the World Wide Web project.

On August 6, 1991, the first web page went live. Tim Berners-Lee created it to provide information about the World Wide Web project. It was executed on a NeXT computer at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research. http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html was the first web page address.
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