Which is the first website of the world? 1st 100 sites included*

**agente47** · 22nd December 2009, 09:54 PM

Today we will look into the history of internet. So, have you ever thought, who is the inventor of internet, which is the first website of world?, which is the oldest registered .com domain? This thread will answer all these questions. Tim Berners-Lee, a scientist at CERN, invented the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1989. The earlier aim of world wide web was to meet the demand for automatic information sharing between scientists working in different universities and institutes all over the world. Cern is an European Organization for Nuclear Research, which has more than 2,500 employees, as well as some 7,931 scientists and engineers from different parts of the world.

Let’s see the screenshot of first and oldest website of the world :: These screen shots were taken from a NeXT computer running Tim Berners-Lee’s original WorldWideWeb browser.

Tim Berners-Lee’s original WorldWideWeb browser in 1993

Screenshot of the first website ::

The first ever web browser was also an editor, making the web an interactive medium, the problem was that it only ran on the NeXTStep operating system. With recent phenomena like blogs and wikis, the web is beginning to develop the kind of collaborative nature that its inventor envisaged from the start.

The First Domain Name :: Symbolics.com is the first domain name ever registered on the Internet. It was registered on 15th March, 1985 by a computer manufacturer firm called Symbolics. On March 15, 2010, Symbolics.com will celebrate its 25th year. This year, in September Symbolics.com has been sold to XF.com Investments. Now a days, Aron Meystedt, owner of XF.com is using this domain for his personal blog. where he writes about business, domain names and life in general.

This is list of Top 100 oldest domain names ranked according to their registration date ::

1. ---15 Mar 1985 Symbolics.com
2. ---24 Apr 1985 BBN.com
3. ---24 May 1985 Think.com
4. ---11 Jul 1985 MCC.com
5. ---30 Sep 1985 DEC.com
6. ---07 Nov 1985 Northrop.com
7. ---09 Jan 1986 Xerox.com
8. ---17 Jan 1986 SRI.com
9. ---03 Mar 1986 HP.com
10. --05 Mar 1986 Bellcore.com
11. --19 Mar 1986 IBM.com
11. --19 Mar 1986 Sun.com
13. --25 Mar 1986 Intel.com
13. --25 Mar 1986 TI.com
15. --25 Apr 1986 ATT.com
16. --08 May 1986 GMR.com
16. --08 May 1986 TEK.com
18. --10 Jul 1986 FMC.com
18. --10 Jul 1986 UB.com
20. --05 Aug 1986 Bell-ATL.com
20. --05 Aug 1986 GE.com
20. --05 Aug 1986 Grebyn.com
20. --05 Aug 1986 ISC.com
20. --05 Aug 1986 NSC.com
20. --05 Aug 1986 Stargate.com
26. --02 Sep 1986 Boeing.com
27. --18 Sep 1986 ITCorp.com
28. --29 Sep 1986 Siemens.com
29. --18 Oct 1986 Pyramid.com
30. --27 Oct 1986 AlphaCDC.com
30. --27 Oct 1986 BDM.com
30. --27 Oct 1986 Fluke.com
30. --27 Oct 1986 Inmet.com
30. --27 Oct 1986 Kesmai.com
30. --27 Oct 1986 Mentor.com
30. --27 Oct 1986 NEC.com
30. --27 Oct 1986 Ray.com
30. --27 Oct 1986 Rosemount.com
30. --27 Oct 1986 Vortex.com
40. --05 Nov 1986 Alcoa.com
40. --05 Nov 1986 GTE.com
42. --17 Nov 1986 Adobe.com
42. --17 Nov 1986 AMD.com
42. --17 Nov 1986 DAS.com
42. --17 Nov 1986 Data IO.com
42. --17 Nov 1986 Octopus.com
42. --17 Nov 1986 Portal.com
42. --17 Nov 1986 Teltone.com
42. --11 Dec 1986 3Com.com
50. --11 Dec 1986 Amdahl.com
50. --11 Dec 1986 CCUR.com
50. --11 Dec 1986 CI.com
50. --11 Dec 1986 Convergent.com
50. --11 Dec 1986 DG.com
50. --11 Dec 1986 Peregrine.com
50. --11 Dec 1986 Quad.com
50. --11 Dec 1986 SQ.com
50. --11 Dec 1986 Tandy.com
50. --11 Dec 1986 TTI.com
50. --11 Dec 1986 Unisys.com
61. --19 Jan 1987 CGI.com
61. --19 Jan 1987 CTS.com
61. --19 Jan 1987 SPDCC.com
64. --19 Feb 1987 Apple.com
65. --04 Mar 1987 NMA.com
65. --04 Mar 1987 Prime.com
67. --04 Apr 1987 Philips.com
68. --23 Apr 1987 Datacube.com
68. --23 Apr 1987 Kai.com
68. --23 Apr 1987 TIC.com
68. --23 Apr 1987 Vine.com
72. --30 Apr 1987 NCR.com
73. --14 May 1987 Cisco.com
73. --14 May 1987 RDL.com
75. --20 May 1987 SLB.com
76. --27 May 1987 ParcPlace.com
76. --27 May 1987 UTC.com
78. --26 Jun 1987 IDE.com
79. --09 Jul 1987 TRW.com
80. --13 Jul 1987 Unipress.com
81. --27 Jul 1987 Dupont.com
81. --27 Jul 1987 Lockheed.com
83. --28 Jul 1987 Rosetta.com
84. --18 Aug 1987 Toad.com
85. --31 Aug 1987 Quick.com
86. --03 Sep 1987 Allied.com
86. --03 Sep 1987 DSC.com
86. --03 Sep 1987 SCO.com
89. --22 Sep 1987 Gene.com
89. --22 Sep 1987 KCCS.com
89. --22 Sep 1987 Spectra.com
89. --22 Sep 1987 WLK.com
93. --30 Sep 1987 Mentat.com
94. --14 Oct 1987 WYSE.com
95. --02 Nov 1987 CFG.com
96. --09 Nov 1987 Marble.com
97. --16 Nov 1987 Cayman.com
97. --16 Nov 1987 Entity.com
99. --24 Nov 1987 KSR.com
100. 30 Nov 1987 NynexST.com