Birth of the Web

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On the open internet and the free web

David Foster on our responsibility as individuals to preserve an open internet and a free web for the benefit of humankind

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12 March, 2014
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12 March, 2014

Not at all vague and much more than exciting

CERN computer scientist Maria Dimou on Tim Berners-Lee's vision for a free, open World Wide Web

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12 March, 2014
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12 March, 2014

Dream team of web developers to recreate line-mode browser

Twelve talented web developers have travelled to CERN from all over the world to recreate a piece of web history: the line-mode browser

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19 September, 2013
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19 September, 2013

Why bring back the line-mode browser?

A team of web developers are working to build a simulator of one of the earliest web browsers, the line-mode browser

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19 September, 2013
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19 September, 2013

How the internet came to CERN

François Flückiger on his being inducted to the Internet Hall of Fame, and the story of how the internet came to CERN

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27 June, 2013
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27 June, 2013

Recreating one of the web’s first browsers

CERN is organizing a two-day coding event to recreate the line-mode browser

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06 June, 2013

Twenty years of a free, open web

On 30 April 1993 CERN published a statement that made World Wide Web technology available on a royalty free basis, allowing the web to flourish

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30 April, 2013
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30 April, 2013

Twenty years of a free and open www

Robert Cailliau on the birth of the web, early brainstorming sessions and "how to spread this thing"

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30 April, 2013
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30 April, 2013

The open internet and the web

Vinton G Cerf, one of the "Fathers of the internet", on the architecture, connectivity and openness of the web

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30 April, 2013
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30 April, 2013

£1 million Engineering prize honours web pioneers

The inaugural Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering went to five engineers whose work led to the internet and the World Wide Web

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18 March, 2013

This month in 1991: The web spreads beyond CERN

Twenty-one years ago this month, physicists at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) installed the first web server outside of Europe

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20 December, 2012