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

Posted by timothy on 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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  1. Should they be thanked for this? by whizbang77045 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Should we thank them, or go looking for some tar and feathers?

  2. Journalists by onyxruby · · Score: 3, Interesting

    How long until ignorant journalists start claiming the Internet is 20 years old today?