The very first website was created by the 60-year old British scientist Tim Berners-Lee on August 6, 1991, officially starting the modern internet timeline. The website was named http://info.cern.ch, and it was hosted on a NeXT computer at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, where Berners-Lee worked. The first page on the first website was titled “World Wide Web,” and it served as a guideline on how to contribute to the larger WWW project: an information system on the internet that would allow connection between documents via hyperlinks.
The most important part of the project was hyperlinking to lead users from one text to another. He also created many of the core technologies that still power the web today: HTTP, HTML, the first browser, and more.