Tuesday, April 30, 2013

20 years ago, CERN freed the Web - ZDNet

Technology: On 30 April 1993, CERN provided the public domain technology world wide web and applications to develop Web sites. And put online the first site www.

Web as we know it today, would certainly not be the same without this fundamental decision of CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research.

On 30 April 1993, the institution poured into the public domain all the technologies developed around the www, world wide web to create simple sites connected operator hyperlinks.

this occasion, CERN put online that can be considered as the first site www, he offered all the necessary tools (server, browser, code) and documentation to develop and implement a site online web. For the record, it was hosted on the NeXT Station Tim Berners-Lee. Disabled, the site was back online by the organization to celebrate this anniversary.

Free, open and decentralized

this action devoid of any commercial ambition (no license, no IP), CERN asked it the first stone of the free Web, decentralized and open to all, as it is today, where everyone can just put up a website and connect to the world.

www has become very quickly the first large-scale exploitation of internet technology today with hundreds of millions of websites online.

“From research to business, through education, the web has redefined the way we communicate, work, innovate and live. The web is an eloquent and simple example of how research benefits the humanity, “said Rolf Heuer, CERN Director General.

Dan Noyes, web manager at CERN added from the BBC: “I want my children to understand the importance of this event: the web is so pervasive in our lives, and it is normal that we might not see how it has changed fundamentally. “

The development of the site since the first NeXT station Tim Berners-Lee

The first site www posted by CERN

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