The first web page was created by Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist at CERN, seen in a 2013 photo. (Jean-Christophe Bott, Keystone/Associated Press)What did web pages look like 25 years ago? The official launch of the World Wide Web to the public on Aug. 23, 1991 has been named "Internaut Day," which is now celebrated annually. The first web page was originally hosted on Berners-Lee's computer, which is still at CERN, but no longer online. Before the world wide web, other protocols existed for transferring information over the internet, but the web quickly surpassed them in popularity.

Source: CBC News August 23, 2016 14:15 UTC