While working at CERN back in 1989, Tim Berners-Lee came up with a unifying structure for linking information across different computers, which he later called the World Wide Web.
In this article, Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols explains what happened 30 years ago when Berners-Lee turned on a World Wide Web server. “In 1989,” Vaughan-Nichols writes, “the internet was still largely used by researchers, academicians, and the military. By 1993, it was well on its way to being the internet you know. Two developments made this happen: The web and the far more obscure Commercial Internet Exchange (CIX).”
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