World Wide Web

The World Wide Web, invented at CERN in 1989 by Tim Berners-Lee, is a system of interlinked hypertext documents that are accessed via the internet. With a web browser, one can view web pages that may contain text, images, videos, and other multimedia and navigate between them via hyperlinks.

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Recreating one of the web’s first browsers

CERN is organizing a two-day coding event to recreate the line-mode browser

News
Computing
06 June, 2013

Recreating one of the web’s first browsers

CERN is organizing a two-day coding event to recreate the line-mode browser

News
Computing
06 June, 2013

Recreating one of the web’s first browsers

Computing
News
06 June, 2013

Twenty years of a free, open web

On 30 April 1993 CERN published a statement that made World Wide Web technology available on a royalty free basis, allowing the web to flourish

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Computing
30 April, 2013

Twenty years of a free, open web

Computing
News
30 April, 2013

£1 million Engineering prize honours web pioneers

The inaugural Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering went to five engineers whose work led to the internet and the World Wide Web

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Computing
18 March, 2013

£1 million Engineering prize honours web pion...

Computing
News
18 March, 2013

Higgs boson detected at London Paralympics

The particle was the star of Enlightenment - a science-themed ceremony featuring Stephen Hawking and Ian McKellen

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Physics
30 August, 2012

Higgs boson detected at London Paralympics

Physics
News
30 August, 2012