As a part of a project to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the world's first web page, the researchers at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) recently announced that they would be restoring the first website, so as to "preserve the digital assets that are associated with the birth of the web."

With the world's first website - which marked the launch of the World Wide Web - being no longer online at its original address, the CERN researchers will essentially drag it out of cyberspace and restore it for Internet browsers.

Commenting on the significance of CERN's project to restore the world's first website, Dan Noyes - web manager at CERN - said that the project will enable the coming generations to understand the origin and importance of the web, as well as the impact it has had on modern life.

Noting that it has been 20 years since CERN made the world wide web available to the world for free, on April 30, 1993, Noyes said that the move to restore the first website has been initiated "so that a web developer or someone who's interested 100 years from now can read the first documentation that came out from the world wide web team."

Noyes further said that the attempts of CERN researchers to make the birth of the web visible again is essentially aimed at emphasizing the idea of "freedom" and "openness" on which the web was originally built.