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Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web at CERN in 1989. The first website is available at its original URL.
Tim Berners-Lee wrote a proposal in 1989 for an information management system called the World Wide Web
Thirty years ago, an unimaginably powerful tool was invented by Sir Tim Berners-Lee here, at CERN
As part of CERN’s celebrations of the 30th anniversary of the Web, an international team is at CERN to recreate the WorldWideWeb browser
Take a short survey to help us to improve CERN’s home website
An opinion article from Sijbrand de Jong, President of CERN Council, on using innovation and knowledge so cutting-edge research can benefit society
CERN gets its own top-level domain and moves the core website to http://home.cern
Twelve talented web developers have travelled to CERN from all over the world to recreate a piece of web history: the line-mode browser
CERN is organizing a two-day coding event to recreate the line-mode browser