which was the first website on the internet and who was its designer?
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First there were just a couple of pages linked together.\n\nTim Berners-Lee, CERN\n\nIt was a big boom realy...\nsites came later.\nI would say one of the first sites were  around the search engines. like altavista  n so on.\nit was similar to this one\nhttp://humblefool.net/theproject/www/index.html
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the earliest online process
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According to the book by Dan Brown called "Angels & Demons" a research facility called CERN in Europe (Geneva, Switzerland to be exact) invented the internet.  It started out at as way for the scientists at the facility to view other's research by looking at web pages throughout their network and developed into what it is now.
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freewebs.com\n\nMake's sense, don't you think?
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most likely Al Gore since according to him, he invented the internet :-)
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http://www.nethistory.info/index.html\n\nhttp://www.isoc.org/internet/history/cerf.shtml\n\nhttp://www.davesite.com/webstation/net-history.shtml
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Games.com is a great one, go to the classic section, there,s also www.ebaumsworld.com, www.killsometime.com, and I think its albinoblacksheep.com as well.  Not sure on the design part of your question.
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Bill Gates  (who created microsoft that created the internet)
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One of the coolest "design" sites that I like to use is the CSS Zen Garden.\n\nThe HTML markup stays the same, but the site gets a radically different look and feel based on different style sheets.\n\nwww.csszengarden.com
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www.mess.be\nthe only thing i hate about this website is you cant open in a new browser b/c it automatically redirects it to the home page\n\na good browse on livejournal.com comes up with virtually anything and the quality of the icons people make on it is 5 star
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The internet was invented in 1989 by an Englishman - Sir Tim Berners Lee.\n\nHe was in the media the other day talking about the future of the internet - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/5009250.stm\n\nHis official page is here - http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/ but there's a good item from Wikipedia here - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee\n and Time 100 here - http://www.time.com/time/time100/scientist/profile/bernerslee.html
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Wikipedia has a good resource starting well before 1949\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_computers\n\nAbout.com has some interesting stuff\nhttp://inventors.about.com/library/blcoindex.htm\n\nHere's a link to Yahoo's category\nhttp://dir.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/History/
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The first Web site went on-line in 1991. Check the source and scroll down to the trivia section.
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The original one:\n\nhttp://c-faq.com/
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The Internet started as an experiment in the late 1960s by the Advanced Research Projects\nAgency (ARPA, now called DARPA) of the U.S. Department of Defense. DARPA\nexperimented with the connection of computer networks by giving grants to multiple\nuniversities and private companies to get them involved in the research.\nIn December 1969, an experimental network went online with the connection of a four-node\nnetwork connected via 56 kbps circuits. The new technology proved to be highly successful\nand led to the creation of two similar military networks—MILNET in the U.S. and MINET in\nEurope. Thousands of hosts and users subsequently connected their private networks\n(universities and government) to the ARPANET, thus creating the initial "ARPA Internet."\nFigures 1-1 and 1-2 illustrate the ARPANET in the early days, from its inception in 1969 to its growing number of connectors in 1976.\nBy 1985, the ARPANET was heavily utilized and burdened with congestion. In response, the\nNational Science Foundation initiated phase 1 development of the NSFNET. The NSFNET\nwas composed of multiple regional networks and peer networks (such as the NASA Science\nNetwork) connected to a major backbone that constituted the core of the overall NSFNET.\nIn its earliest form, in 1986, the NSFNET created a more distributed, three-tiered network\narchitecture. This architecture connected campuses and research organizations to regional\nnetworks, which in turn connected to a main backbone network linking six nationally funded\nsupercomputer centers. The original links of 56 kbps were upgraded in 1988 to faster T1\n(1.544 Mbps) links. This was a result of the 1987 NSF competitive solicitation for faster\nnetwork service, awarded to Merit Network, Inc. and its partners MCI, IBM, and the state of\nMichigan. The NSFNET T1 backbone connected a total of 13 sites, including Merit.
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got to www.freeweblayouts.net
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Microsoft (free domain and hosting for life) , Google (Googlepages, Blogger) , Yahoo (Geocities), Freewebs are some of the companies offering free websites with design tools . A list of free websites with features and links is available at  http://tinyurl.com/lw7kp