Browse the first website Browse the first website using the line-mode browser simulator Learn about the birth of the web Learn about CERN, the physics laboratory where the web was born

A summary of the history of the project. How can I help ? If you would like to support the web..

First project proposal written and circulated for comment (TBL) . Paper "HyperText and CERN" (in ASCII or WriteNow format) produced as background. October 1990

With recent phenomena like blogs and wikis, the web is beginning to develop the kind of collaborative nature that its inventor envisaged from the start. See also a screen shot taken later, in 1993.

Making a web is as simple as writing a few SGML files which point to your existing data. Making it public involves running the FTP or HTTP daemon , and making at least one link into your web from another. …

This is a list of some of those who have contributed to the WWW project , and whose work is linked into this web. Unless otherwise stated they are at CERN, Phone +41 (22)767 plus the extension given …

The following year, the World Wide Web was born. This week, it's a pleasure and an honour for us to welcome the Web's inventor back to CERN to mark this special anniversary at the place the Web …

With 2009 being declared the Year of Creativity and Innovation by the European Union, the 20th anniversary of the Web serves as a timely reminder of the powerful role that creativity in basic …

The term was coined by Ted Nelson around 1965 (see History ). HyperMedia is a term used for hypertext which is not constrained to be text: it can include graphics, video and sound , for example. …

But it was the first universal line mode browser that allowed anyone access to the Web, regardless of the kind of computer system used. When compared with the current homepage for CERN, most of …