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jloughry
The HTML style of the First Website Ever Made is interesting to read: short lines, careful line breaks, upper-case tags (and a few no-longer-seen) but no indentation.

Spacing, as always, is tricky in hand-written HTML.

cms07
Is there such thing as not-hand-written HTML?
mod
Program-generated HTML?

WYSIWYG-editor-generated HTML?

cms07
I know there are other ways to generate it. I'm just wondering what self-respecting dev wouldn't write their own.
mod
How about a self-respecting dev using a md-to-html blog implementation?
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prezjordan
Responsive, fonts load quickly, tab ordering is sane - A+ Tim!
arxpoetica
Clear love for definition lists. <dl>...<dt>...<dd>
_cipher_
And love that the first site was trully responsive. :)

How I wish there were sites styled like that (no irony, and I know it doesn't has any style). Get in, grab your info, maybe see an image and get out.

Good times.

ars
Extra /A at the end :)

What is/was NEXTID?

kalleboo
> What is/was NEXTID?

Used by the NeXT WorldWideWeb editor to know what the next free anchor name was

ghantila
Hey look, even then there was a <header> tag.
bshimmin
But no <HTML> tag and no DOCTYPE. Things were definitely a bit woolly pre-1995, when the first proper HTML spec (version 2.0...) was published.
xerophyte12932
How is this the first website? the subjects page has links to so many other websites....
sp332
It has been updated, of course. The "W3 servers" page notes that the content hasn't changed since 1992.
jacquesm
Websites can be updated after they are first created which is one of their many virtues.
Kiro
I wonder why a line break was used after the A in the opening A tags.
Souk
In the to-do list (http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/Bugs.html): "Search engines : Now the web of data and indexes exists, some really smart intelligent algorithms ("knowbots?") could run on it. Recursive index and link tracing, Just think... "