Before Google turned search into an instant, algorithm-driven answer machine, the internet looked more like a phone book that had a nervous breakdown. Enter Yahoo! (yes, with the exclamation point, because this was the ’90s and punctuation was branding). Founded …

Today’s search: “oldest still-running website” The answer takes you back to CERN’s first web page from 1991 — a plain-text monument to the birth of the World Wide Web. It’s not flashy. No autoplay videos. No pop-ups asking for your …