WORLD'S FIRST WEBSITE!!!

''If households nowadays want a computer,
it is not to compute, but to go on the Web.''
- info.cern.ch, World's 1st website.

Internet has become an important part of our everyday lives. Today, nobody can imagine a world with out the internet. It is considered as one of the very best inventions made by man in the last century. Well, if you ask me to name 3 inventions which changed the world, I would say with out even a slightest trace of doubt, that they are FIRE, WHEEL and the INTERNET. With in a few months of its creation, internet became the biggest, cheapest and never ending source of information in the world.

Using your web browser as a space ship, you can navigate through a universe of information on the Internet. Nowadays we use internet for emailing, gaming, banking, to access news, weather and sports reports, to plan and book holidays and to find out more about our random ideas and casual interests. There is nothing in today's world that is not influenced by the exhaultic power of the internet. By its widespread usability and access the internet has made possible entirely new forms of social interaction, activities and organizing, we call it the SOCIAL NETWORKING.

By December 31, 2008, 1.574 billion people were using the Internet according to Internet World Statistics; that's about one-third of the world's population!!!

But have you ever thought of,

Who made this amazing invention?

• Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee, (born 8 June, 1955) is an English computer scientist and MIT professor credited with inventing the World Wide Web which paid way for the creation of the internet.
  Click here to know more about him

Which website was the first ever to go online?

• The first ever website to go online was ''http://info.cern.ch''. This website was first put online by Tim Berners-Lee on August 6, 1991. Eventhough this website still exist, the very first & original version of the website is not available on the net today. But you may find a later version here which went online in 1992.

To read more about the invention of the

WORLD WIDE WEB, click here.