Decades before YouTube, Facebook and Twitter, before Charlie bit his brother’s finger and long before the Star Wars Kid, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, or CERN as it’s commonly known, created the World Wide Web. Specifically, back on April 30, 1993, CERN released the code for “W3″ to the world royalty-free. The ease of use and the fact that it cost nothing, gave programmers an open field to create. Now, 20 years and a whole lot of memes later, CERN has put the original webpage and the original URL back together. Click at will:

http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html

On it, you will find everything you need to know about the World Wide Web, described as “a wide-area hypermedia information retrieval initiative aiming to give universal access to a large universe of documents.”

The biggest shock to many will be that there’s absolutely no porn on the site. #thegoodolddays