The first ever "website" was not really a website but a linking page between the Pentagon and several nearby Universities in the early 70's. The computers involved in the networking weighed over 5 tonnes each and the computers involved themselves weighed over 100 tonnes each. It was originally done as an experiment to see if wires could handle mass information migrations (useful to the Pentagon as they could now send info to all their bases around the USA).
Some guy Tim Berners-Lee (an Oxford grad in physics) invented the web as a way of posting information for physicists at the European Particle Accelerator at CERN. The physics postings got caught up in red tape, but a couple of other people got interested. Currently he spends his time trying to regulate the way the web is used.
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