The birth of the World Wide Web

CERN's first computer was a Dutchman named Wim Klein. How things have changed.

• 12 March 1989

  Tim Berners-Lee submits a proposal for a distributed information system at CERN

• 20 December 1990

  The world's first website and server go live at CERN

• 10 January 1991

  The web extends to the high-energy-physics community

• 6 August 1991

  Berners-Lee posts a summary of the project on alt.hypertext

• 12 December 1991

  First web server outside of Europe

• 30 April 1993

  CERN releases WorldWideWeb source code

• 1 October 1994

  Tim Berners-Lee founds the World Wide Web Consortium