Question: What was the first website address?

List of websites founded before 1995

Of the thousands of websites founded prior to 1995, those appearing here are listed for one or more of the following reasons:
They still exist (albeit in some cases with different names).
They made contributions to the history of the world wide web.
They helped to shape certain modern Web content, such as webcomics and weblogs.
1991
CERN[1] The link is a snapshot of the CERN site, the first website, as of November 1992. The Web was publicly announced (via a posting to the Usenet newsgroup alt.hypertext) on August 6, 1991.[2]
World Wide Web Virtual LibraryOriginally Tim Berners-Lee's web catalog at CERN.
Stanford Linear Accelerator CenterPaul Kunz from SLAC visited Tim Berners-Lee at CERN in September 1991. He was impressed by the WWW project and brought a copy of the software back to Stanford. SLAC launched the first web server in North America on December 12, 1991.[3]
1992
NikhefThe Dutch National institute for subatomic physics, originally at . This site was actually the third website in the world to come online in February 1992, after CERN and SLAC.[4]
National Center for Supercomputing ApplicationsThe National Center for Supercomputing Applications site was an early home to the NCSA Mosaic web browser, as well as documentation on the web and a "What's New?" list which many people used as an early web directory.
FermilabSecond web server in North America, following in the trend of high-energy physics laboratories.
SunSITEEarly, comprehensive archiving project. Project as a whole started in 1992 and was quick to move to the web.
Ohio State University Department of Computer and Information ScienceEarly development of gateway programs, and mass conversion of existing documents, including RFCs, TeXinfo, UNIX man pages, and the Usenet FAQs.
IN2P3The French National institute for nuclear physics and particle physics, originally at .[5]
HUJIThe Hebrew University of Jerusalem Information service - both in . Was the first RTL website and the 10th to come online in April 1992., at .[6]
1993
By the end of 1993, there were 623 websites, according to a study by MIT Researcher Matthew Gray.[7]
ALIWEB(A</i>rchie L</i>ike I</i>ndexing for the WEB)[8] is considered the first Web search engine, announced in November 1993 [9]   by developer Martijn Koster presented in May 1994 [10] at the First International Conference at CERN in Geneva.
Bloomberg.comFinancial portal with information on markets, currency conversion, news and events, and Bloomberg Terminal subscriptions.[11]
Chabad.orgThe flagship website of the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic movement. It serves its own members and Jews worldwide.[12]
Corpus of Electronic Texts (formerly CURIA)Peter Flynn from University College Cork saw Tim Berners-Lee demonstrate the WWW at a RARE WG3 meeting, and installed the software at UCC for the CURIA project.[13]
Doctor FunOne of the first webcomics, noted by the NCSA as "a major breakthrough for the Web".
The LANL preprint archiveWeb access to thousands of papers in physics, mathematics, computer science, and biology; developed out of earlier gopher, ftp, and e-mail archives at Los Alamos.
Global Network NavigatorExample of an early web directory created by O'Reilly Media and one of the Web's first commercial sites; it was hosted at Bolt Beranek and Newman (BBN).[14]
Haystack ObservatoryHaystack Observatory's web site explained its radio and radar remote sensing mission and provided data access for science users.   Content was rolled out on December 13, 1993 by Dr. John Holt of Haystack.  The web site is , and the original web page format is .
The Internet Movie DatabaseFounded in 1989 by participants in the Usenet newsgroup rec.arts.movies, the IMDB was rolled out on the web in late 1993, hosted by the computer science department of Cardiff University in Wales.
Internet Underground Music ArchiveCreated by students at the University of California, Santa Cruz to help promote unsigned musical artists. Music was shared using the MP2 format, presaging the later extreme popularity of MP3 sharing and Online music stores.
Kent AnthropologyOne of the first social science sites (online May 1993). Originally at  . Still online at 
SITOAfter a start as an anonymous ftp-based art gallery and collaborative collective, the OTIS project (later SITO) moves to the web thanks to SunSITE's hosting.
The TechThe MIT campus newspaper, The Tech, claims to be the first newspaper to deliver content over the Web, beginning in May 1993.[15]
Nexorweb site set up for Nexor, by Martijn Koster, an early Internet software company.:[16]
MTVThe music television network's domain was registered in 1993 by VJ Adam Curry, who personally ran a small unofficial site.
PARC Map ServerArguably the earliest precursor of MapQuest and Google Maps. PARC Researcher Steve Putz tied an existing map viewing program to the web. Now defunct.[17]
Principia CyberneticaProbably the first complex, collaborative knowledge system, sporting a hierarchical structure, index, map, annotations, search, plenty of hyperlinks, etc. Designed by Francis Heylighen, Cliff Joslyn and Valentin Turchin to develop a cybernetic philosophy.
ExPASyThe first life sciences web site. Still active
Trojan room coffee potThe first webcam.
Trincoll Journala multimedia magazine published by students at Trinity College in Hartford Connecticut.
Wired.comAn online presence for Wired magazine.
1994
By mid-1994 there were 2,738 websites, according to Gray's statistics; by the end of the year, more than 10,000.
Allied Artists InternationalThe first corporate web site for Allied Artists Entertainment Group, predecessor to Allied Artists International, present day owner of Allied Artists Film Group & Allied Artists Music Group[18]
American Marketing AssociationProfessional Association. Created in 1994 by a group of Marketing professors. It offered general marketing news for marketers and professors of marketing. Approximately a year later, the site was moved to ama.org where it still remains.[19]
Amnesty InternationalHuman Rights site. Created in 1994 by the organization's International Secretariat and the Computer Communications Working Group of Amnesty International Canada.
Art.Net"Art on the Net", created by Lile Elam in June 1994 to showcase the artwork of San Francisco Bay Area artists as well as other international artists. It offered free linkage and hosts extensive links to other artists' sites.
Art CrimesThe first graffiti art site began to archive photos from around the world, creating an important academic resource as well as a thriving online community.
The Amazing FishCamA webcam pointed at a fishtank located at Netscape headquarters. According to a contemporaneous article by The Economist, "In its audacious uselessness—and that of thousands of ego trips like it—lie the seeds of the Internet revolution."
Automatic Complaint-Letter GeneratorCreated by Scott Pakin in April 1994, the site allows users to specify the name of the individual or company that the complaint is directed toward, as well as the number of paragraphs the complaint will be. After submitting the data, the computer generates sentences that are composed of arbitrary verbs, nouns, and adjectives. Still active.
Bianca's Smut ShackAn early web-based chatroom and online community known for raucous free speech and deviant behavior.
Birmingham City CouncilEarly local government site, initially hosted by the University of Birmingham.[20]
Buzzweb.comThe earliest website for alternative music artists and news. Created by A. Joi Brown and Matthew Brown in 1993-1994. Registered with Network Solutions 1993.
Chabad.orgThe first Ask the rabbi site. Launched by Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Kazen as an outgrowth of earlier discussion groups on FidoNet dating back to 1988.[21]
CitySitesThe first "City Site" web development company, advertising businesses and reviewing music and art events in the Bay Area. Started in 1994. CitySites was featured in Interactive Week Magazine in 1997 as numerous other City websites began competing for the business ad market including CitySearch and others. Founder, Darrow Boggiano, still operates CitySites.[22][23]
Cool Site of the DayGlenn Davis' daily pick of 'cool' websites
CybersellThe first commercial advertising service focused on using spam comes online as sell.com, set up by Laurence Canter and Martha Siegel, notorious for spamming Usenet newsgroups earlier that year.
CORDISThe COmmunity Research & Development Information Service, the European Commission's first permanent website, providing the repository of EU-funded research projects. Launched on ESPRIT day in November 1994 as www.cordis.lu.[24]
The EconomistThe Economist "went live in early 1994" with a website "structured as a portal with various search tools of the day (e.g., Archie, Veronica, Jughead, WAIS and Gopher)"; it cost $120, paid for by one of the magazine's correspondents, and by the end of the year "America Online voted it one of the world’s top-ten news sites, nosing out Time-Warner’s celebrated Pathfinder site—which reputedly cost $120 million to build."[25]
Einet GalaxyClaims to be the first searchable web catalog; originally created at the Einet division of the MCC Research Consortium at the University of Texas, Austin. It passed through several commercial owners and is now run by Logika Corporation.
Encyclopaedia Britannica Online
EnterzoneFirst purely web-based (no gopher!) literary webzine (originally published at enterzone.berkeley.edu).
EPage ClassifiedsFirst Web classified ad site (was originally at ep.com).
First VirtualFirst "cyber-bank".
FogCam!World's oldest still operating webcam. Located at San Francisco State University.
Home Page ReplicaA fansite dedicated to researching the history and music of Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band.[26]
HotWiredWebsite of Wired magazine with its own unique and innovative online content. Home of the first banner ads, for Zima and AT&T.[27][28]
IBMAn early corporate web site [29]
InnerviewsThe first online music magazine set up by music journalist Anil Prasad, accessible at: [30]
Institute of Social and Cultural AnthropologyUniversity of Oxford. The web version of a previous Gopher server. Set up early 1994 by David Price at
. No version has been archived but announcements giving the URL date from April 1994 on Huamnist-l and anthro-l.
The Irish TimesFirst newspaper in the United Kingdom or Ireland to have a website: irish-times.ie was founded in 1994. The newspaper mvd to ireland.com in 1999 and irishtimes.com in 2008.[31]
Justin Hall's Links from the UndergroundOne of the earliest examples of personal weblogging.
LawinfoEarly legal website, provides public access to pre-qualified, pre-screened attorneys, and to free legal resources.[32]
Literary KicksEarly literary website about Beat Generation, spoken word poetry and alternative literary scenes, launched by Levi Asher on July 23, 1994.[33]
LycosEarly search engine, originally a university research project by Dr. Michael Mauldin.
Megadeth, ArizonaThe first website for a band, Megadeth.[34][35][36]
MicrosoftAn early corporate site.[37]
Museum of Bad ArtWebsite of a museum "dedicated to the tongue-in-cheek display of poorly conceived or executed examples of Outsider Art in the form of paintings or sculpture."
The Nine Planets"A Multimedia Tour of the Solar System", created by Bill Arnett. One of the first extensively multimedia sites.
Nando.netOne of the first newspaper sites; the online presence of the Raleigh, North Carolina News & Observer.
NetBoyHighly popular early webcomic.
NetrekOne of the first sites dedicated to Internet, multi-user video-game programming; maintained at obsidian.math.arizona.edu. Defunct.
 - Online Technology Exchange, Inc. 1993 Created the largest worldwide Electronic Components, Semiconductor Parts Search Database

Pathfinder.comOne of the first Internet portals, created by Time Warner.[25]
Pizza HutThe pizza delivery restaurant started by allowing people in Santa Cruz, California to order pizza over the Web.[38]
Powells.comThe website of Powell's Books.[39][40] and started with two employees; the company's first online order was placed by an Apple employee.[41] It pre-dates Amazon.com.
Purple.comThe first known single-serving site; consists of simply a purple background.[42][43]
The Radcliffe Science LibraryThe first part of Oxford University to establish a web presence (on 7 Jan 1994) from
. We cannot find an archive version before the Wayback Machine version on 19.10.1996. The URL is attested on email lists (e.g. Humanist-l) by April 1994).
Senator Edward KennedyThe first website for a member of the U.S. Congress was officially announced on June 2, 1994. The site remained active throughout the remainder of the senator's service until his death in 2009.
Saccharomyces Genome DatabaseNIH funded research project on the Web. Still funded by NIH and online. SGD provide curation of all published results on budding yeast (aka. bakers, brewers, and wine yeast) genes and their products. Current URL is yeastgenome.org
Sex.comSubject of a twelve-year legal battle that established parameters of domain ownership.
Sighting.comSIGHTINGS began in 1994 as the website home for Jeff Rense's award-winning UFO & Paranormal radio program of the same name.
The Skeptic's DictionaryFeatures definitions, arguments, and essays on topics ranging from acupuncture to zombies, and provides a lively, commonsense trove of detailed information on things supernatural, paranormal, and pseudoscientific.
Steelforge.comCommercial website for open die forge facility.
The Simpsons ArchiveThe first fan site for The Simpsons television show.
Sirius ConnectionsThe first internet service provider in the San Francisco Bay Area.[44] The owner - Arman Kahalili gave novice website creators a great deal of technical assistance to get the new wave of developers started on building sites and expanding code that was used in later versions of HTML and other web technology.[45]
SpinnWebeEarly humor site, called "a window on the weird" by The New Yorker.[46]
Stak Trading (staktrading.co.uk)Computer hardware resale in the UK. The site was created by Stuart Mackintosh who previously provided software and driver downloads through a Wildcat! BBS and price lists to the trade via a Faxmaker faxback systems.
Telegraph.co.ukThe Electronic Telegraph, website of the Daily Telegraph.[47]
Traditio.comThe First Traditional Roman Catholic Internet Site, founded September 29, 1994.[48]
Transdat.comThe first site using the internet for a sales medium on a global scale for heavy machinery.
VeloNewsOne of the first sports news sites, initially providing Tour de France news.[49][50]
Virginia's Legislative Information Systemleg1.state.va.us. The site remains active today as "LIS Classic". 
VirtuMallCreated in 1994 by MIT dorm mates, pioneered shopping cart technology, pioneered credit card payments sent via fax to mail order catalogs, created the first pooled-traffic site, and helped foster standards for security. One of the first "tenants" was Hickory Farms.[51]
The WWW Useless PagesPerhaps the first site which showcased bad or eccentric websites rather than 'cool' ones.
WebCrawlerAn early search engine for the Web, and the first with full text searching, by Brian Pinkerton at the University of Washington, announced in June 1994.
Whitehouse.govThe official website of the White House.
World-Wide Web WormThe World-Wide Web Worm (WWWW) was one of the first search engines for the World-Wide Web, by Oliver McBryan at the University of Colorado, announced in March 1994.
Yahoo!Originally started as "Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web"; later Yahoo without the exclamation mark.
See also
History of the World Wide Web