Birth of the Web

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Save the date: the Web@30 on 12 March 2019

The Web@30 event is happening at CERN and you can join it from anywhere in the world

News
Computing
09 January, 2019
Computing
News
09 January, 2019

Licensing the Web

Tim SmithFrançois Flückiger

Computing

From the web to a start-up near you

Twenty years ago, in 1997, CERN set up a reinforced policy and team to support its knowledge- and technology-transfer activities

News
Computing
26 October, 2017
Computing
News
26 October, 2017

Sir Tim Berners-Lee receives A.M. Turing Award

The award is often referred to as the "Nobel Prize" of computing

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Computing
10 April, 2017

Internaut Day and the World Wide Web

With people celebrating “Internaut day” on 23 August to mark the World Wide Web’s creation, CERN explores its history

News
Computing
23 August, 2016
Computing
News
23 August, 2016

The CERN effect

An opinion article from Sijbrand de Jong, President of CERN Council, on using innovation and knowledge so cutting-edge research can benefit society

Opinion
Computing
19 April, 2016
Computing
Opinion
19 April, 2016

Internet prehistory at CERN

Connecting CERN to the internet was a chaotic but essential task, says retired CERN computer scientist Ben Segal

Opinion
Computing
09 April, 2014
Computing
Opinion
09 April, 2014

World Wide Web born at CERN 25 years ago

In March 1989 Tim Berners-Lee wrote a proposal to develop a radical new way of linking and sharing information: the World Wide Web

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Computing
12 March, 2014
Computing
News
12 March, 2014

Minimising the muddle

Peggie Rimmer was Tim Berners-Lee’s hierarchical "leader" in CERN’s Data and Documents division when he invented the World Wide Web

Opinion
Computing
12 March, 2014
Computing
Opinion
12 March, 2014

Good old Bitnet, and the rise of the World Wide Web

Senior physicist Richard Jacobsson remembers the early days of the World Wide Web at CERN

Opinion
Computing
12 March, 2014