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The World Wide Web
On the timeline · around 1989 · Contemporary
What happened
Tim Berners-Lee proposed the World Wide Web at CERN; the first website went live in 1991.
Why it matters
Made the internet broadly usable and reshaped communication, commerce, and knowledge.
How we know
CERN's archived original proposal and the first web server and website.
Sources
- CERN. A short history of the Web · General source