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Which country hosted the first-ever web server outside of Europe, brought online in December 1991 at Stanford Linear Accelerator Center?
Answer
United States
The first web server outside of Europe was set up at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) in California in December 1991, making the United States the second country to host a web server after Switzerland, where CERN is located.
💡 Did you know?
SLAC's first web server hosted a particle-physics database — meaning the earliest content on the web outside Europe was a catalog of scientific papers, not a homepage.
Other options people guess
- Japan
- Australia
- Canada
Topics
- world-wide-web
- 1990s
- internet-history
- slac
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