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30th Anniversary of the World Wide Web [web.cern.ch]:

Suppose all the information stored on computers everywhere were linked. Suppose I could program my computer to create a space in which everything could be linked to everything.’

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web

In 1989 the world’s largest physics laboratory, CERN, was a hive of ideas and information stored on multiple incompatible computers. Sir Tim Berners-Lee envisioned a unifying structure for linking information across different computers, and wrote a proposal in March 1989 called "Information Management: A Proposal [cds.cern.ch]". By 1991 this vision of universal connectivity had become the World Wide Web.

Celebration at CERN

To celebrate 30 years since Sir Tim Berners-Lee's proposal and to kick-start a series of celebrations worldwide, CERN [home.cern] hosted a 30th Anniversary event in the morning of 12 March 2019 in partnership with the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) [w3.org] and with the World Wide Web Foundation [webfoundation.org].

This anniversary event was webcast, with Web@30 Viewing Parties watching live worldwide!

Official photos of the CERN celebration

More photos of the CERN event at https://cds.cern.ch/record/2665683 [cds.cern.ch]

Web@30 tweets from CERN

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