Researched1991 · Digital Age (1990 – 2015)

World Wide Web

Tim Berners-Lee makes the internet usable for everyone with links, a browser and addresses.

At CERN, Tim Berners-Lee proposed a web of linked documents in 1989; the first website went live there in 1990 and was opened to the public in 1991, and CERN released the technology in 1993. The Mosaic browser (1993) brought images and Google (1998) search; online shops, social networks and cloud services followed. The web is now the internet’s most important application.

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CERN1954Berners-Lee invented the web at CERN to share documents among physicists
The Internet1969
TCP/IP1974The web runs on TCP/IP connections

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E-Commerce & Fulfilment1995
SSL/TLS secure connections1995
Web search and PageRank1998
Wikipedia2001
Cloud Computing2006
Smartphone2007
ImageNet dataset2009
Encrypted Web (Let's Encrypt)2015
Avoiding a Digital Dark Ageopen

World Wide Web

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