“On August 6, 1991, without fanfare, British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee published the first-ever website while working at CERN, the huge particle physics lab in Switzerland.”
No, it was mentioned briefly in the article and I hadn't thought of it for years. It was a client program for browsing internet resources (internet referring to ftp, telnet-based, directories, but not web/www since they weren't popular yet). People messing with the internet in the very early 90's might have used gopher before it quickly became obsolete due to the web/http/WWW.