Did you know the first website was born amidst a failed coup?
1991 Soviet coup attempt
Did you know the first website was born amidst a failed coup?
Imagine you're trying to access a website, but suddenly it disappears. You're left wondering why it vanished when it was working just fine moments before.
The first website's disappearance was like a sudden blackout during a power outage. It was created by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN, and its launch coincided with a failed coup attempt in the Soviet Union, causing a brief interruption in the internet's early days.
Example
The website went down for a few hours on August 19-21, 1991, as the coup unfolded.
Remember this
The first website's brief disappearance reminds us that even the internet's beginnings were not immune to real-world events.
Text adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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