The 15 Most Influential Websites of All Time
Oct 23, 2017, 11:14 AM
The web, or "world wide web" as we used to say, turns 27 years old on December 20. On that date, nearly three decades ago, British engineer and scientist Tim Berners-Lee launched the world's first website, running on a NeXT computer at CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) in Switzerland.
The website wasn't much at the time, just a few sentences organized into topic areas that laid out the arguments for the concept.