The first website, created by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN in 1991, was hosted at Info.cern.ch.
The site explained the World Wide Web project, including how to use a web browser, set up a web server, and create web pages. It was initially hosted on Berners-Lee’s NeXT computer at CERN.
Info.cern.ch is often described as both the first website and the address of the first web server. The original site was later reconstructed because the earliest files were not preserved in their original form. It should not be confused with CERN’s current main website or with W3.org, which belongs to the World Wide Web Consortium.
The project’s first public documentation helped turn the web from a research proposal into a system other people could use. CERN restored the historic address to commemorate the web’s origins.