The watermark, Dr Venter says, includes a cipher which contains the URL of a website and three quotations, if you can work out how to decode it.

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To commemorate the 20th anniversary of this event CERN has recreated the first ever website, complete with its original URL. The preservation doesn't stop at copying over some old files, either, with CERN also looking to preserve the first servers used, restoring as much as possible to its original state.

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While every web browser still has a URL bar that allows someone to enter a website address, but with shinier interfaces and toys available, the role of the direct URL is being diminished.

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If you know it, try using the website's numerical address rather than its verbose URL (Universal Resource Locator) name.

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Once you enter your URL you can quickly see how long it takes your website to load, and more importantly, what you can do to decrease that load time.

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It took a lot of money for Major League Baseball (MLB) to purchase the domain name Rockies.com, a URL that was formerly owned by the Canadian tourism portal Tourism Canadian Rockies, but it now controls the website.

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