On this day, 33 years ago, CERN put the World Wide Web software into the public domain.
The idea had been proposed by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, initially so that scientists and institutes working with CERN data could share information quickly and accurately around the world.
Later, CERN also published an open license version to further facilitate its dissemination.
In the images you can see:
1 and 2. The document that officially put the World Wide Web into the public domain. 3. Tim Berners-Lee's NeXT computer, which served as the original web server and development machine for the WWW project. 4. A screenshot of the recreation of the first website.
And so, from a CERN office in Meyrin (Geneva), something began that today we use for almost everything. Even to argue on Facebook with people who don't read the sources. Things of progress.
Source: CERN https://home.web.cern.ch/science/computing/birth-web