CERN Celebrates 20 Years of an Open Web (and Rebuilds 1st Web Page)

Posted by timothy on Tuesday April 30, 2013 @02:46AM from the well-it's-done-okay dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Twenty years ago CERN published a statement that made the World Wide Web ('W3,' or simply 'the web') technology available on a royalty-free basis. By making the software required to run a web server freely available, along with a basic browser and a library of code, the web was allowed to flourish." Reader Rambo Tribble adds that CERN "is recreating the very first web page to ever exist. Included in the effort are plans to use the original hardware, as well as software, that gave birth to our beloved WWW."

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Re:I wonder whether Lamar Smith by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · 2013-04-30 03:00 · Score: 1, Flamebait

He'd probably be conflicted. This 'WWW' stuff is a bunch of pointy-headed eurocommie academic bullshit designed for distributing things like scientific papers and porn; but the network it runs on top of is good, solid, ARPA-designed, National Defense research designed to keep the communications up even when Ivan drops the bomb.