The Web began with a proposal at CERN
Символічна AI-ілюстрація комп’ютера NeXT-подібного вигляду в лабораторному кабінеті CERN; не архівне фото й не справжній екземпляр першого сервера. / Symbolic AI illustration of a NeXT-like computer in a CERN laboratory office; not an archive photograph or the actual first server.
In March 1989, Tim Berners-Lee proposed a system at CERN for sharing information among scientists. His manager, Mike Sendall, wrote on the document: “Vague, but exciting.” The first browser, server, and website were running at CERN by the end of 1990; the Web spread beyond the laboratory in 1991, and on 30 April 1993 CERN placed the Web software in the public domain. These were separate steps: the Internet already existed, and in 1993 CERN opened the Web software for free use.


