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The first website went live on 6 August 1991, describing the World Wide Web project itself, hosted at CERN in Switzerland.

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The idea in context

The first website went live on 6 August 1991, and it simply explained what the World Wide Web was — a page about pages, the seed of everything online that followed.

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Aynı kart, başka bir dilde.

İlk web sitesi 6 Ağustos 1991'de yayına girdi; İsviçre'deki CERN'de barındırılıyor ve World Wide Web projesinin kendisini anlatıyordu.
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İlk web sitesi 6 Ağustos 1991'de yayına girdi ve yalnızca World Wide Web'in ne olduğunu açıklıyordu — sayfalar hakkında bir sayfa; ardından gelen her şeyin tohumu.

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