CERN celebrates 30 years since releasing the web to the public domain
that the organization adopt"a global hypertext system." His first name for the project was"Mesh".
And as the Consortium records, in 1990 Berners-Lee set to work on"a hypertext GUI browser+editor using the NeXTStep development environment. He makes up 'WorldWideWeb' as a name for the program." Berners-Lee's work gathered a very appreciative audience inside CERN, and soon started to attract attention elsewhere. By January 1993, the world had around 50 HTTP servers. The following month, the first graphical browser – Marc Andreessen's Mosaic – appeared.On April 30, 1993, CERN signed off on a decision that the World Wide Web – a client, server, and library of code created under its roof – belonged to humanity .
"CERN relinquishes all intellectual property rights to this code, both source and binary form, and permission is granted for anyone to use, duplicate, modify and redistribute it" states a letter signed on that day by Walter Hoogland and Helmut Weber – at the time respectively CERN's director of research and director of administration.Hoogland shared a story of recognizing the significance of the web, and trying to interest commercial software companies in the tech.
Astounding quantities of similarly diverting content has since been published to the web – including this very story and the site it's on!
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