CERN celebrates 20 years of a free, open web | CERN press office: "Geneva, 30 April 2013 - Twenty years ago CERN1 published a statement that made the World Wide Web ("W3", or simply "the web") technology available on a royalty-free basis. By making the software required to run a web server freely available, along with a basic browser and a library of code, the web was allowed to flourish. The technology, invented in 1989 at CERN by Tim Berners-Lee, was originally conceived and developed to meet the demand for information sharing between physicists in universities and institutes around the world."…
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See the first CERN WWW page here.
And just for the record, here's a page of my own from 15 years ago, looking a little bit the worse for wear, via the Internet Archive Wayback Machine.
2 comments:
Very few of the hyperlinks still work but the Spam one does which is beautiful!
Spam forever!
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