Bangalore: It was exactly 21 years ago on August 6, 1991 when 36-year-old physicist Tim Berners-Lee published the first-ever website. Not surprisingly it was a very basic one.

Built at CERN, where Berners-Lee worked, the world's first website can still be visited today whose address was “http://www.w3.org/History/19921103-hypertext/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html”. Since it was updated frequently after launching; therefore, images of its earliest versions were never saved. 

The website provided information regarding the WWW project basically to explain it to newcomers, like hypertext, technical details for creating their own webpage, and even an explanation on how to search the Web for information.

Though it was a big breakthrough in the IT world but the world was unaware because of unavailability of browser. The technology achieved momentum when in 1993, Mosaic browser was released.

Berners-Lee’s plan was to merge the technologies of personal computers, computer networking, and hypertext into a powerful and easy-to-use global information system. The execution of which created the World Wide Web. The website was written on a NeXT computer, made by the company Steve Jobs founded after he was expelled from Apple back in 1985.

Tim Berners-Lee was honored in the opening ceremony of the 2012 Olympics, with a musical number and an appearance in London's Olympic Stadium.