The world's first website turns 25 years old.

This website was created exactly 25 years ago. It has fairly simple content, but it laid the foundation for the development of the massive internet network we see today.

On December 20, 1990, British scientist Tim Berners-Lee launched the world's first website. The website, located at info.cern.ch, was hosted on the NeXT server at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) and remains accessible today.

The interface of info.cern.ch, the world's first website of its kind.

The website above wasn't actually launched until August 1991, and its content was simply to explain the World Wide Web (WWW) and hypermedia (content containing both audio and video). Although it contained only rudimentary information, this website is considered the starting point for the Internet we use today.

Tim Berners-Lee, the "father" of the web, continues to be involved in internet-related work and heads the World Wide Web Consortium. He is also working to protect open websites against interference from governments or organizations seeking to undermine the internet's neutrality.

Meanwhile, CERN, which was once involved in operating the world's first global nuclear power plant, has focused its research on particle physics.

20 interesting facts about the web:

1. The first website address is http://info.cern.ch.

2. Domain names – the foundation of the web ecosystem – were created six years before the first website appeared. The earliest domain name registered was Symbolics.com in March 1985.

3. NeXT computers (a company founded by Steve Jobs) were the first web servers.

4. At the end of 1992, there were only 26 web servers worldwide.

5. Apache is the world's most popular web server and was also the first web server to reach 100 million installations in 2009.

6. Google also owns its own web server called Google Web Server (GWS). In July 2009, only 14.2 million sites used GWS, but today it is the fourth most popular web server in the world.

7. If you want to know why reading information online is called "surfing the internet," ask Jean Armour Polly, who coined the term "surfing the internet" and is the author of several books on online services.

8. Pornography is one of the biggest and most popular content categories on the web, but the first .xxx domain names only appeared in August 2011.

9. According to Worldwidewebsite, as of August 5, 2011, there were 19.68 billion websites in the world, three times the total world population.

10. In 1996, Americans spent an average of only 30 minutes per month browsing the internet.

11. The first browser, also developed by Berners-Lee, was WorldWideWeb.

12. The first browser developed for PC and Mac users was Mosaic, built by the US National Supercomputing Center in February 1993. It was one of the first graphical browsers and spurred the explosion in web usage.

13. April 30, 1993 was a particularly important day because CERN announced that anyone could use the WWW technology freely and without charge.

14. On May 26, 1994, a Conference Dinner was held to award prizes for the best of WWW.

15. Although "worldwide" is the correct spelling, Tim Berners-Lee decided to write it separately to avoid causing problems in communities that don't speak English.

16. Currently, users are not required to type www when entering a web address.

17. The blue color of the website link was chosen because, over a decade ago, computer screens only supported 16 colors, and blue was the darkest color that didn't affect the readability of the text.

18. According to the majority of users, Google.com is the most important website on the Internet over the past 20 years.

19. Mark Zuckerberg, the owner of Facebook, born in 1984, is the world's youngest billionaire thanks to providing web-based services.

20. One in eight married couples met online.

According to VnExpress