Cern to recreate world's first web page Prof Tim Berners-Lee developed the first ever web page while working at Cern in the 1990s, and the recreation of it will allow future generations to understand the hardware and software that made the first browsing experience possible. Dan Noyes, the web manager for Cern's communication group, told the BBC: "I want my children to be able to understand the significance of this point in time: the web is already so ubiquitous - so, well, normal - that one risks failing to see how fundamentally it has changed." We are in a unique moment where we can still switch on the first web server and experience it. We want to document and preserve that. The overall aim of the project hosted at info.CERN.ch by Cern is to preserve all the digital assets associated with the inception of the web, with a searchable archive for those using the internet in years to come who will not remember a time without it. April 30 marks the day the world wide web entered the public domain for the first time.