April 30, 1993: Internet revolution goes global as Cern makes World Wide Web free to everyone

On a landmark day for technology and information exchange, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (known by its French acronym Cern) put the World Wide Web into the public domain, ensuring a single, free system for accessing the internet, for everybody.

Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist at Cern, had initially conceived and developed the World Wide Web (WWW) to provide fast, automatic information sharing between scientists and academics around the globe.

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