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A Look Back At The Very First Website Ever Launched, 30 Years Later

The world's first website, which contained information about the World Wide Web itself, was created by British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee and published 30 years ago today.
This picture taken on April 30, 2013 in Geneva shows a 1992 copy of the world's first web page.

On August 6, 1991, the first website was introduced to the world.

And while perhaps not as exciting or immersive as some of the nearly 1.9 billion websites that exist today, it makes sense that the first web page

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