Day 201

Day 201

 

In 1990, the first web server and browser was up and running. The world wide web was up!

It was originally developed by British scientist Tim Berners-Lee to help CERN’s 17,000 scientists, spread out over 100 countries, communicate more easily. He developed the code for his Web server on a NeXT computer. To prevent it from being accidentally switched off, the computer had a hand-written label in red ink:

“This machine is a server. DO NOT POWER IT DOWN!!"

The first Web page address, which contained information about the WWW project itself, was…

http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html

Now anyone with access to a computer or a cell phone can share or access almost any information they can conceive of. It is hard to imagine a world without it.

 

https://home.cern/science/computing/birth-web/short-history-web


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