On August 23, 1991, the World Wide Web, which had been created two years earlier by Tim Berners-Lee, a British fellow of the European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN), was made public, and in theory, accessible to all.
From 1989 to 1991, the basic fundamentals of today's Web, in the shape of HTML pages composed of text, and sometimes, of images and links, all of which are made accessible via URL addresses, were developed under the leadership of Tim Berners-Lee and Belgian engineer Robert Cailliau. At the time the web was still only an application of the Internet network, which itself was descended from the military Arpanet developed at the end of the 1960s by a unit of the US Defense Department.
In 1991, when it first went public, the audience for the Web was limited to researchers and others with the necessary equipment to connect to it. Only in 1993, with the arrival of the Mosaic browser, and a year later, the launch of Netscape, did it finally become accessible to a wider public.
Today, Internet users from all over the world are invitd to join in a social network celebration of the anniversary of the web's first public launch via the hashtag #InternautDay.
Rediscover the first-ever World Wide Web page.
