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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Arg by Murdoch5 · 2013-04-30 03:32 · Score: -1, Troll

I can respect the fact that Tim Lee wrote a basic language that works on the web but I don't think crediting him with the creation of the internet is fair. He helped and he his name should appear as one of the many creators but I'm sick of hearing how he created the internet. That would be like saying K&R created programming because they wrote C, they wrote a great language that progressed computer science but they just like Tim can't credited with creating the sole object.