The World Wide Web was born twenty years ago at CERN - Gaianews.it

Geneva, 30 April 2013 – About twenty years ago, CERN published a historical document in which he presented a technology that would revolutionize the world, not just the technology, but the culture and the society in general. The project was the World Wide Web (web world) which later became known web. The central point of his enormous spread was that, being the CERN research institute, released the backbone of the web in a royalty-free license (royalty-free).

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Into CERN also released all the software needed to operate this strange creature: a web client (the browser) and a server needed to run a website. This decision to give freely to the world everything he needed to thrive in the web has allowed little time to replace all other attempts around the world to create networks more or less free.

Into The technology was invented in 1989, also at CERN by Tim Berners-Lee, and was originally conceived and developed to meet the information sharing between physicists from universities and institutes around the world. The link – or hyperlinks – that run was a way to connect to other studies cited in the paper, what in the books is called reference.

Into The web was not the only system invented to share information. Other information retrieval systems that use the Internet – such as WAIS and Gopher – were already available at the moment, but the simplicity of the web, along with the fact that the technology was brought royalty free in a short time to its rapid adoption and a huge development.

Into “There is no sector of society that has not been processed by this invention accomplished in a physics lab,” says Rolf Heuer, Director General of CERN. “From research to the business world to education, the web has reshaped the way we communicate, work, innovate and live. The web is a powerful example of the way in which the benefits of basic research may fall on mankind. “

Into The first website of CERN – and ever in the world – was dedicated precisely to the design of a global information network, the Web, of course, and it was hosted on a NeXT computer Berners-Lee. The site describes the basic features of the web, such as access to documents of other people and how to set up your own server.

Remember Into the press of Cern: “Even if that car – the first web server original – is still at Cern, sadly the first website in the world is no longer in line to its original address.”

Into To celebrate the anniversary of the publication of the document that has made the web technology free for all, CERN has launched a project to restore the first website and to preserve the digital assets associated with the birth of the web.