CERN celebrates 30 years of open web. Three decades since the release of the World Wide Web.

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CERN celebrates 30 years of open web

Three decades since the release of the World Wide Web

It has now been 30 years since the European research organization released what we now call the "web" to the public. The web started as a proposal from Tim Berners-Lee while he was working at CERN in 1989. It was intended as a system for researchers to share information with each other on an internet-based platform.

This became known as the World Wide Web (W3) and was used internally at CERN in 1990 before being released to research institutions outside of CERN the following year. On April 30, 1993, CERN released W3 to the public domain. CERN themselves write about the event:

"30 years ago, on 30 April 1993, CERN made an important announcement. Walter Hoogland and Helmut Weber, respectively the Director of Research and Director of Administration at the time, decided to publicly release the tool that Tim Berners-Lee had first proposed in 1989 to allow scientists and institutes working on #CERN data all over the globe to share information accurately and quickly. Little did they know how much it would change the world."

Above, you can watch a clip where Walter Hoogland talks a bit more about this historic event. Below, you can find the document where CERN released W3 to the public.