Wednesday, April 30, 2008

30 April 08

In the future we might refer to 30 April as Web Independence Day. What we know as the World Wide Web was originally developed at CERN, a European particle physics research laboratory, by Tim Berners-Lee. He designed the first protocols in March, 1989, but "the true turning point for Berners-Lee’s World Wide Web would be on April 30, 1993, when he received a signed and stamped declaration from CERN stating that 'CERN agreed to allow anybody to use the Web protocol and code free of charge, to create a server or a browser, to give it away or sell it, without any royalty or other constraint.'" (source) Happy Independence Day, WWW!

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