The First Web Page, Amazingly, Is Lost

[Valin]

NPR

5/22/13

 

Given the World Wide Web's ubiquity, you might be tempted to believe that everything is online. But there's one important piece of the Web's own history that can't be found through a search engine: the very first Web page.

 

Now a team at the lab where the World Wide Web was invented is seeking to restore that page, and other pieces of memorabilia from the earliest moments of the http:// era. They're on the hunt for old hard drives and floppy disks that may hold missing copies of early, valuable files.

 

The story of the Web began in 1989 at a European particle physics laboratory called . Hundreds of the world's smartest scientists were putting together huge experiments to hunt for new particles. They worked in teams; each scientist would build one little part a circuit board or a piece of software. Then they'd put it all together.

 

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