Those of us over thirty years of age, may have lived the majority of our lives without the World Wide Web, yet I imagine it is increasingly more difficult to remember what that was like.
Perhaps more significantly, those under thirty have only lived with the World Wide Web.
25 years ago, the first website was launched. A simple announcement in a usenet group:
![[Source: Google Groups ]](http://www.billcoppinger.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Berners-Lee-Web-Announcement-1996.png)
The link of the first URL is active again: http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html
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?
From CERN, the results are preliminary but…at a seminar held at CERN as a curtain raiser to the year’s major particle physics conference, ICHEP2012 in Melbourne, the ATLAS and CMS experiments presented their latest preliminary results in the search for the long sought Higgs particle.
The results presented today are labelled preliminary. They are based on data collected in 2011 and 2012, with the 2012 data still under analysis.
Publication of the analyses shown today is expected around the end of July. A more complete picture of today’s observations will emerge later this year after the LHC provides the experiments with more data.
Cern says…
The ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN today presented their latest results in the search for the long-sought Higgs boson. Both experiments see strong indications for the presence of a new particle, which could be the Higgs boson