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Save the date to celebrate the Web@30 on 12 March 2019

By Mélissa G. Published on 24 January 2019 in:
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The Web@30 event is happening at CERN and you can join it from anywhere in the world.

In 1989, CERN was a hive of ideas and information stored on multiple incompatible computers. Tim Berners-Lee envisioned a unifying structure for linking information across different computers, and wrote a proposal in March 1989 called “Information Management: A Proposal”. By 1991, this vision of universal connectivity had become the World Wide Web!

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Featured in EPN

By e-EPS. Published on 21 August 2013 in:
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Most recent highlights from EPN:
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An eye-witness report on how the WWW came about by Horst Wenninger
Surprises in the Hard X-ray Sky by Thierry J.-L. Courvoisier

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Twenty years of free, open web

By Jorge Rivero González. Published on 27 May 2013 in:
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On 30 April 1993, CERN made the technology behind the World Wide Web available for everyone to use. From that day on, the web has changed all aspects of society, a revolution that can be compared to the invention of the printing-press in the 15th century. To commemorate the 20th anniversary of the free, open web, CERN has started a project to preserve the digital assets that are associated with the birth of the web.

During the 1980s, the internet was already well-known in academic institutions, being mainly used for email…

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