[ALUG] Happy birthday www!

Andreas Tauscher ta at geuka.net
Thu Mar 13 12:54:21 EAT 2014


13. March 1989 Tim Barners-Lee sent a proposal [1] to his bosses about
how to organize information better using computers, databases and network.
The idea for the World Wide Web was born.

Happy birthday!

But the www has several birthdays:
13. November 1990 with http://info.cern.ch was the first website online.
(There you sill find copies of the first website. Nice tiemtravel.)
30. April 1993 Barners-Lee was allowed to make the CERN internal used
libwww public available.

[1] http://www.w3.org/History/1989/proposal.html


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