WorldWideWeb: 18 years in the public domain

By at 4:52 pm Saturday, Apr 30

Fckimages Cern Eighteen years ago today, CERN released the source code of WorldWideWeb -- the first Web browser and editor -- into the public domain. Tim Berners-Lee has some screen shots of the browser at his CERN page.
CERN's intention in this is to further compatibility, common practices and standards in networking and computer supported collaboration.
WorldWideWeb (Wikipedia, via Imaginary Foundation)

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