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A Brief History of The World-Wide-Web

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A Brief History of The World-Wide-Web (1989-2021)

End of 1990

November of 1990

HTML, URI, and HTTP (the basics of the Worl-wide-web) were born

The idea was born

Tim wrote the first web page editor/browser, called the “WorldWideWeb.app”

1989

October of 1990

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of the World-wide-web started working on the project

End of 1990

People outside of CERN were invited to join this new web community

Tim founded the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), an international community devoted to developing open web standards

1994

April of 1993

The underlying code of the Worl-wide -web was made available on a royalty-free basis, forever

1991

The first web page was served on the open internet

The Web had 10 000 servers - 2000 of which were commercial - and 10 million users

The popularity andn the use of the World-wide-web is greater then ever and influences our everyday lives

2004

1994

“Year of the Web”

1994

2021

Tim Berners-Lee was knighted for his servicest

1994

Stories about the Web hit the media

Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web#History https://webfoundation.org/about/vision/history-of-the-web/ https://home.cern/science/computing/birth-web/short-history-web