The World Wide Web Goes Public: Berners-Lee Connects Humanity
CERN announced the World Wide Web would be free for anyone to use, with no licensing fees, two months after the competing Gopher protocol began charging. Tim Berners-Lee's open approach triggered a mass migration of developers to the Web and unleashed an explosion of websites. Within two years, commercial browsers emerged and the internet transformed from academic tool to global platform.
April 30, 1993
33 years ago
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