The World Wide Web began as a proposal written by the British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee while working at CERN, the European particle physics laboratory near Geneva. He suggested a system in which documents stored on different computers could be linked together by hypertext, so that researchers could easily share information. With colleagues he developed HTML, HTTP and web addresses, and wrote the first web browser and server in 1990. The web opened to the public in 1991, and CERN released the underlying technology royalty-free in 1993, which helped it spread quickly, especially after the Mosaic browser appeared. The web is an application that runs on the Internet, the network of networks, and not the Internet itself.
Before and after
- 23 January 1989Death of Salvador Dalí
- 21 February 1989Birth of Corbin Bleu
- 3 March 1989Death of Ruhollah Khomeini
- from 9 March 1989 to 27 April 1992Revolutions of 1989
- 12 March 1989World Wide Web
- 21 March 1989Basel Convention
- 9 April 1989April 9 tragedy
- 15 April 1989Hillsborough disaster
- from 26 April 1989 to 31 January 1996Premiere of Dragon Ball Z
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- 1964Discovery of rutherfordium
- 29 October 1969Invention of Internet
- 18 February 1970Discovery of dubnium
- July 1974Discovery of seaborgium
- 1976Discovery of bohrium
- 1984Discovery of hassium
The era
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