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David Foster on our responsibility as individuals to preserve an open internet and a free web for the benefit of humankind
CERN computer scientist Maria Dimou on Tim Berners-Lee's vision for a free, open World Wide Web
Twelve talented web developers have travelled to CERN from all over the world to recreate a piece of web history: 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
François Flückiger on his being inducted to the Internet Hall of Fame, and the story of how the internet came to CERN
CERN is organizing a two-day coding event to recreate the line-mode browser
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
Robert Cailliau on the birth of the web, early brainstorming sessions and "how to spread this thing"
Vinton G Cerf, one of the "Fathers of the internet", on the architecture, connectivity and openness of the web
The inaugural Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering went to five engineers whose work led to the internet and the World Wide Web
Twenty-one years ago this month, physicists at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) installed the first web server outside of Europe