The first website is still online.
Why it is true
The first website, created by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN in 1991, explained what the World Wide Web was and how to use it. It is still accessible at its original URL.
Source: Technology History
Would you rather be asked first?
This is the reading side of the site, so the answer is in the sentence above — that is the whole point of it. Test yourself works the other way round: the question comes on its own, and the fact and the explanation only appear once you have answered.
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