Post by Razu on Dec 7, 2023 9:41:45 GMT
So, I've been "researching" the first website for some time now, and when I've seen it's source code it was even more interesting.
First of all, we don't have the basic start for every HTML document, <!DOCTYPE html>, in most pages it has somewhat close to it start, but in a form unknown to me. For example, here's the <!DOCTYPE html> section in the info.cern.ch/hypertext/:
as we see, it uses HTML 3.2. HTML 3.2 was created in 1996, not 1992, which was the date of the version retrieved from Tim Berners-Lee1 computer and uploaded to the internet, as CERN launched a initiative to revive the oldest website in 2013. However, if we go further into the website by clicking "Browse the first website" we can also see the source code. Apparently, it really dates back to 1992, as it's clearly made to be browsed using the line mode browser. It didn't use clickable links, instead it inserted numbered footnotes and if you entered one of the numbers, it taken you to the respective document. I have no idea how it's still working for modern browsers.
Also, the code in the tags is always capitalized. And we also see that most documents that are linked begin with the archaic form of the <head> tags, <HEADER>. The footnotes are numbered with the NAME=1 text in the <a href=> link tags. The only thing CERN did to make it look at least slightly modern is optimise it for modern browsers, as the first browsers were giving out documents in green and black colors only. Also there are some documents which exist but are not directly linked by other documents, but they serve not much information as they have been most probably updated in the late 1990s and more.
First of all, we don't have the basic start for every HTML document, <!DOCTYPE html>, in most pages it has somewhat close to it start, but in a form unknown to me. For example, here's the <!DOCTYPE html> section in the info.cern.ch/hypertext/:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN">as we see, it uses HTML 3.2. HTML 3.2 was created in 1996, not 1992, which was the date of the version retrieved from Tim Berners-Lee1 computer and uploaded to the internet, as CERN launched a initiative to revive the oldest website in 2013. However, if we go further into the website by clicking "Browse the first website" we can also see the source code. Apparently, it really dates back to 1992, as it's clearly made to be browsed using the line mode browser. It didn't use clickable links, instead it inserted numbered footnotes and if you entered one of the numbers, it taken you to the respective document. I have no idea how it's still working for modern browsers.
Also, the code in the tags is always capitalized. And we also see that most documents that are linked begin with the archaic form of the <head> tags, <HEADER>. The footnotes are numbered with the NAME=1 text in the <a href=> link tags. The only thing CERN did to make it look at least slightly modern is optimise it for modern browsers, as the first browsers were giving out documents in green and black colors only. Also there are some documents which exist but are not directly linked by other documents, but they serve not much information as they have been most probably updated in the late 1990s and more.
