<P> While inventing and working on setting up the Web, Berners - Lee spent most of his working hours in Building 31 (second floor) at CERN (46 ° 13 ′ 57" N 6 ° 02 ′ 42" E ﻿ / ﻿ 46.2325 ° N 6.0450 ° E ﻿ / 46.2325; 6.0450 ﻿ (CERN Building 31, Birthplace of the World Wide Web)), but also at his two homes, one in France, one in Switzerland . In January 1991 the first Web servers outside CERN itself were switched on . </P> <P> The first web page may be lost, but Paul Jones of UNC - Chapel Hill in North Carolina revealed in May 2013 that he has a copy of a page sent to him in 1991 by Berners - Lee which is the oldest known web page . Jones stored the plain - text page, with hyperlinks, on a floppy disk and on his NeXT computer . CERN put the oldest known web page back online in 2014, complete with hyperlinks that helped users get started and helped them navigate what was then a very small web . </P> <P> On August 6, 1991, Berners - Lee posted a short summary of the World Wide Web project on the alt. hypertext newsgroup, inviting collaborators . This date is sometimes confused with the public availability of the first web servers, which had occurred months earlier . </P> <P> Paul Kunz from the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center visited CERN in September 1991, and was captivated by the Web . He brought the NeXT software back to SLAC, where librarian Louise Addis adapted it for the VM / CMS operating system on the IBM mainframe as a way to display SLAC's catalog of online documents; this was the first Web server outside of Europe and the first in North America . The www - talk mailing list was started in the same month . </P>

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