Record #00451Technology archive
In December 1990, Tim Berners-Lee brought the first World Wide Web site, info.cern.ch, online at CERN to explain the Web project and how to use it.
Achievement date
1990
1990-12
Berners-Lee proposed using hypertext over the Internet for scientific information sharing in 1989. By late 1990, he had developed the browser, server and initial pages.
The first site ran on a NeXT computer and explained the Web project and how to access it. Access spread beyond CERN, and CERN placed the Web software in the public domain in 1993.
The record conclusion has sufficient verification support.
Basis: direct confirmation by an authority
CERN's historical timeline dates the first operational World Wide Web site, browser and server to December 1990. The site was info.cern.ch on a NeXT computer. The first operational website must not be confused with the 1989 proposal or the 1993 public-domain release.
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