The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) on Sunday celebrated the 30th anniversary of releasing the World Wide Web into the public domain. From a report: As the World Wide Web Consortium’s brief history of the web explains, in 1989 Tim Berners-Lee – then a fellow at CERN – proposed that the organization adopt “a global hypertext system.” His first name for the project was “Mesh.” And as the Consortium records, in 1990 Berners-Lee set to work on “a hypertext GUI browser+editor using the NeXTStep development environment. He makes up ‘WorldWideWeb’ as a name for the program.” Berners-Lee’s work gathered a very appreciative audience inside CERN, and soon started to attract attention elsewhere. By January 1993, the world had around 50 HTTP servers. The following month, the first graphical browser — Marc Andreessen’s Mosaic — appeared. Alternative hypertext tools, like Gopher, started to lose their luster. On April 30, 1993, CERN signed off on a decision that the World Wide Web — a client, server, and library of code created under its roof — belonged to humanity (the letter was duly stamped on May 3).
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