D6. NeXT + dial-up

  • Year: 1991
  • Zone: Networks & the Web
  • Band: middle
  • Tier: Built

The web was written on a NeXT computer at CERN, and most people first reached it through a dial-up modem. Race the first web page against a 2025 median home page over a 14.4 kbit/s line.

  • Dev machineNeXT, CERN
  • ModemV.32bis 14.4k
  • First siteinfo.cern.ch

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Caveat

The label 'first' describes the common early dial-up experience, not a claim that a single machine was the web's only origin.

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