The World Wide Web is Twenty

The link of the first URL is active again:  http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html

Background

British physicist Tim Berners-Lee invented the web at CERN in 1989. The project, which Berners-Lee named “World Wide Web”, was originally conceived and developed to meet the demand for information sharing between physicists in universities and institutes around the world.

On April 30, 1993, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN), where Sir Tim worked, made the web available to the world for free.

The first website at CERN – and in the world – was dedicated to the World Wide Web project itself and was hosted on Berners-Lee’s NeXT computer.

I still have very vivid memories of Paul Wilson at Pegasus networks in Brisbane,  providing a test demonstration of the new “browser” and hyper-links though the Mosaic browser.

Pegasus networks was a member of the Association of Progressive Communications, a partner to our I*EARN Australia and Australia’s first public internet service provider.

Only twenty years?

Links:

• CERN
• The first web page
• Sir Timothy Berners-Lee
• MOSAIC 1.0