what was the world's first interactive website?
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Most probably internet.com
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On the simplest level, the Web physically consists of your personal computer, web browser software, a connection to an Internet service provider, computers called servers that host digital data, and routers and switches to direct the flow of information.\n\nClient/server The Web is known as a client-server system. Your computer is the client; the remote computers that store electronic files are the servers. Here's how it works:\n\nLet's say you want to visit the the Louvre museum website. First you enter the address or URL of the website in your web browser (more about this shortly). Then your browser requests the web page from the web server that hosts the Louvre's site. The server sends the data over the Internet to your computer. Your web browser interprets the data, displaying it on your computer screen.\n\nThe Louvre's website also has links to the sites of other museums, such as the Vatican Museum. When you click on that link, you access the web server for the Vatican Museum. In this way, information scattered across the globe can be linked together.\n\nHow the Web works The "glue" that holds the Web together is called hypertext and hyperlinks. This feature allows electronic files on the Web to be linked so you can jump easily between them. On the Web, you navigate through pages of information--commonly known as browsing or surfing--based on what interests you at that particular moment.\n\nTo access the Web you need a web browser, such as Netscape Navigator or Microsoft Internet Explorer. How does your web browser distinguish between web pages and other types of data on the Internet? Web pages are written in a computer language called Hypertext Markup Language or HTML.\n\nLink below also gives history of the web:
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I second http://www.webmonkey.com I learned HTML from there about ten years ago, and while the site is no longer updated, there are fantastic guides to be found there.
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(Yahoo! Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, www.yahoo.com) The largest and most comprehensive information portal on the Web. Along with Web search, news, sports and weather, Yahoo! offers e-mail, instant messaging, travel, auctions, classified ads, discussion groups, Web hosting and numerous other services.\n\n\nIt Began with Search\n\nWhen it launched in 1995, Yahoo! was the first Web search site to gain worldwide attention. It distinguished itself in the early days because it created its indexes manually. Instead of sending out automated spiders that roamed the Web and indexed everything in sight, indexing specialists decided what categories a Web page fit in. As a result, Yahoo! called itself a "directory," rather than just a search engine. Today, Yahoo! also uses spiders because the Web has grown too large to handle entirely by hand.\n\n\nA Student Hobby\n\nIn 1994, Stanford Ph.D candidates Jerry Yang and David Filo began indexing interesting Web sites as a hobby. "Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web" turned into Yahoo!, meaning "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle!" A very successful IPO followed in 1996, and within a few years, Yahoo! became a major global brand with offices around the world.
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Your question doesn't exactly have one answer.  Dial-up was massively introduced about 10 years ago.  However, the earliest recorded use of communication between computers through a data line began in the 1950s.  Joseph Licklider was actually one of the pioneers for global connectivity.  He was considered an expert in "artificial intelligence."    Google Mr. Licklider and you'll get more information on his contributions to dial-up networking.
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Before the world wide web there wasn't an Internet, it was a govt/education network.\n\nUnless you mean the old BBS's (Bulletin Boards) - these you had to dial directly to a specific phone number, and only had access to that particular one, eg, CIX
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world wide web? i think
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what kind of website is it?
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Sorry YAHOO 1994 was around well before Google 1997 (three years was an eternity back then) and if you look at the home pages of each they offer similar service but are very very different in many ways.\n\ntimeline:  \n\nJerry Yang and David Filo created Yahoo in 1994. It started out as a listing of their favorite Web sites. What made it different was that each entry, in addition to the URL, also had a description of the page. Within a year the two received funding and Yahoo, the corporation, was created.\n\nGoogle was launched in 1997 by Sergey Brin and Larry Page as part of a research project at Stanford University. It uses inbound links to rank sites. In 1998 MSN Search and the Open Directory were also started. The Open Directory, according to its Web site, "is the largest, most comprehensive human-edited directory of the Web. It is constructed and maintained by a vast, global community of volunteer editors." It seeks to become the "definitive catalog of the Web." The entire directory is maintained by human input.
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"No one person invented the Internet", here is a page that gives information on the people who were instrumental in its development.\nhttp://www.boutell.com/newfaq/history/inventednet.html\n\nThe world wide web on the other hand was "invented by Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau in 1990. In 1989, while working at CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research)"\n\nhttp://www.boutell.com/newfaq/history/inventedweb.html
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The birth, death and rebirth of the Netscape browser (and/or Firefox)\n\nCompare him to one hit wonders (as in music or sports)
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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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DARPA. This US defense agency began the internet.\nSee: "Hackers" by Steven Levy.\nDefense Advanced Research Projects Agency\nAlso:\nhttp://www.w3.org    which runs the www. which Tim Berniers-Lee, now at MIT, programed when a physicist at European CERN
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this is a cache from microsoft.com\n\nIn the early 90s—the dawn of history as far as the World Wide Web is concerned—relatively few users were communicating across this global network. They used an assortment of shareware and other software for Microsoft Windows® operating system. \n\nIn 1995, Microsoft hosted an Internet Strategy Day and announced its commitment to adding Internet capabilities to all its products. In fulfillment of that announcement, Microsoft Internet Explorer arrived as both a graphical Web browser and the name for a set of technologies. \n\nread it all here:\n\nhttp://www.microsoft.com/windows/WinHistoryIE.mspx
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Designing Visual Interfaces by Kevin Mullet and Darrell Sano (Prentice-Hall, 1995)\n\nThe Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward Tufte
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google.com#Beginning
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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