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    {"title" :"Internet Time Travel","summary" : "The first public page on the world wide web went live twenty years ago on April 30, 1993. Take a look because this is the page that explains all things www at the time.","date" : "2013-05-02T13:40:29-04:00","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"tammi-marcoullier" : "Tammi Marcoullier"},"topics" : {
        
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      "editpathURL" :"https://github.com/GSA/digitalgov.gov/edit/bc-archive-content-3/content/news/2013/05/2013-05-02-internet-time-travel.md","slug" : "internet-time-travel","url" : "/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/2013/05/02/internet-time-travel/","content" :"\u003cdiv class=\"image\"\u003e\n  \u003cimg\n    src=\"https://s3.amazonaws.com/digitalgov/_legacy-img/2013/05/600-x-328-CERN-homepage-Oct-7-2015.jpg\"\n    alt=\"CERN homepage\"/\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\n\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003ca title=\"first web page ever\" href=\"http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003efirst public page\u003c/a\u003e on the world wide web went live twenty years ago on April 30, 1993. Take a look because this is the page that explains all things www at the time.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://s3.amazonaws.com/digitalgov/_legacy-img/2013/05/first-WWW-page-3.jpg\"\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"image\"\u003e\n  \u003cimg\n    src=\"https://s3.amazonaws.com/digitalgov/_legacy-img/2013/05/first-WWW-page-3.jpg\"\n    alt=\"Screen shot of the very first world wide webpage. A sparse page with text and links. Click image to enlarge.\"/\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\n\n\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca title=\"read write web link to CERN first web story\" href=\"http://readwrite.com/2013/04/30/first-ever-world-wide-web-site-brought-back-to-original-url\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eReadWriteWeb\u003c/a\u003e put it in perspective:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.cern.ch/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eCERN\u003c/a\u003e, the European science laboratory where the Web was born (and where physicists are now exploring the origins of the universe with the \u003ca href=\"http://lhc.web.cern.ch/lhc/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eworld’s largest particle accelerator\u003c/a\u003e) first made the page public on April 30, 1993. A 1992 copy of the page had been \u003ca href=\"http://www.theverge.com/2012/8/5/3221547/world-first-web-site\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eavailable on the W3C servers\u003c/a\u003e, but only returned to its original location today.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIf this whets your appetite for more web nostalgia…\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca title=\"web wayback machine\" href=\"http://archive.org/web/web.php\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eThe Wayback Machine\u003c/a\u003e lets you compare screen grabs of pages over a period of time. See what today’s favorites looked like years ago.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNARA captures federal agency websites at \u003ca href=\"http://www.webharvest.gov/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.webharvest.gov/\"\u003ehttp://www.webharvest.gov/\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/a\u003e (though possibly not as frequently as the Internet Archive, producers of  The Wayback Machine). Both NARA and the Internet Archive use the same web crawling tools.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNow we are on multiple devices with a variety of experiences, so we should look into capturing those, too.What do you think the future holds?\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf your agency tracks iterations and upgrades (notable differences, of course) to your site, I’m interested in sharing a few examples. Reach me at tammi.marcoullier(at)gsa(dot)gov.\u003c/p\u003e\n"}
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