According to Tim Berners-Lee, this is a copy of the first web page ever.

It is so plain, yet so informative, and could have been easily written in vi with the most basic HTML knowledge.

For those curious minds, don't forget to take a look at the simple HTML source code. [Via]

(The original URL, nxoc01.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html, ceased to exist a long time ago.)