#OnThisDay we celebrate 34 years since the world’s first website and server went live
#AtCERN.
The basic idea of the World Wide Web was to merge the evolving technologies of computers, data networks, and hypertext into a powerful and easy-to-use global information system, which would meet the demand for automated information-sharing between scientists in universities and institutes around the world.
By Christmas 1990, Tim Berners-Lee (Image 3) had defined the Web’s basic concepts html, http and URL, and he had written the first browser and server software.
The address of the world's first web server was
info.cern.ch, which was running on a NeXT computer at CERN (Image 1). The world's first web page address provided information about the World Wide Web project (Image 2).
Find out more about our
#CERN70 history:
home.cern/science/computing/…