Cern celebrates 30 years of the World Wide Web
Cern is launching a retro website to mark the WWW anniversary. Sir Tim Berners-Lee had the idea 30 years ago to exchange research results via the Internet - the birth of the World Wide Web.
On 12 March 1989 at Cern, Sir Tim Berners-Lee presented an idea to Research results with his colleagues via the Internet. The British physicist then developed a Workplace near Geneva the World Wide Web.
The WWW was intended to be used to communicate on the Internet in a universal language. By the end of 1990, Berners-Lee had programmed all the key components for it. These include HTML, HTTP, URL, the first web server, browser and editor.
World Wide Web published for free
In April 1993, the time had finally come: The project was made available to the public free of charge. This gave everyone the opportunity to make improvements themselves. According to Cern, this step contributed significantly to the fact that the WWW is so widespread today.
A lot has happened in the past 30 years, and it's hard to imagine surfing the Internet without it. According to Cern, around half of the world's population is now connected and almost two billion websites are online.
To coincide with the 30th birthday of the World Wide Web, the research institution has now published a Website launched, which makes it possible, as at that time, to Surf. However, the process of accessing a website is much more complicated than it is today.
Click on "Document" and then on "Open from full document reference". Now the full URL must be entered - including "http://www.". As soon as you confirm the entry with "Open", you will see the website in retro style.
