The birth of the World Wide Web
  1. Sir Tim Berners-Lee submitted his first proposal for what became the World Wide Web

    In March 1989, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, while working…

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  2. Management proposal for a World Wide Web project

    In November 1990, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, together…

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  3. The world's first browser/editor, website and server go live at CERN

    By Christmas 1990, Sir Berners-Lee had defined…

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  4. Line Mode browser available at CERN

    By March 1991, a simple ‘Line-Mode’ browser was…

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  5. Sir Berners-Lee announces the WWW software on the Internet

    In August 1991, Sir Berners-Lee announced his WWW…

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  6. First web server outside Europe

    On 12 December 1991, the first web server outside…

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  7. WWW moves from prototype to production

    By January 1992, the WWW software at CERN had…

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  8. A small but growing number of Web servers and browsers

    By late 1992, the WWW project had a growing list…

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  9. First pre-release of the Mosaic browser

    From January 1993, the National Center for…

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  10. CERN puts the World Wide Web in the public domain

    On 30 April 1993, CERN issued a statement putting…

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  11. First International World Wide Web conference held at CERN

    In May 1994, Robert Cailliau organized the world’…

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  12. Tim Berners-Lee founds the World Wide Web Consortium

    In October 1994, Tim Berners-Lee founded the…

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  13. More than 10,000 Web servers around the world

    By the end of 1994, the Web had 10,000 servers -…

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  14. Celebrating the Web@30

    In March 2019, it will be 30 years since Sir Tim…

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