First public website turns 20, comes back online — then crashes
Tuesday, April 30, 2013 - 14:31
in Mathematics & Economics
Twenty years ago, on April 30, 1993, CERN set the World Wide Web free. In celebration, the research institute relaunched the first webpage, which provides a real blast from the Internet past. Along with the very basic lo-fi design, the site experienced connectivity issues upon its (re) debut, crashing and reconnecting repeatedly Tuesday morning. What you'll see, if you managed to connect, is what ...