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World Wide Web Day – August 1
August 12 , 2019
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- August 1 was World Wide Web Day.
- Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1989.
- The World Wide Web (WWW) was conceived in 1989 at the CERN lab, a European research organization, at Geneva of Switzerland, as a way for scientists to share knowledge.
- The world’s first website (http://info.cern.ch) at CERN, went online on August 6, 1991.
- A NeXT Computer was used by Sir Tim Berners-Lee as the world's first web server and also to write the first web browser - WorldWideWeb - in 1990.
- On April 30, 1993, CERN announced that the World Wide Web would be free to anyone, with no fees due.
- The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the main international standards organisation for the World Wide Web, was founded by Tim Berners-Lee after he left CERN in October 1994.
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