Twenty years of a free, open web On 30 April 1993 CERN published a statement that made World Wide Web technology available on a royalty free basis, allowing the web to flourish On 30 April 1993 CERN published a statement that made 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. http://info.cern.ch/ ¡Feliz Cumpleaños, World Wide Web! :grin: Dang it, should have opened this thread yesterday.
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