Reshared post from +Derek Ross
Happy 20th Birthday World Wide Web!
20 years ago today, CERN made the technology behind the World Wide Web royalty free and accessible to all. Thanks Sir Tim Berners-Lee. You've changed the world.
In celebration, the first website ever has been brought back online, at its original location.
http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html
No, the site isn't running on the original NeXT box. Everyone is just hammering it, making it slow. Think of it as a DDoS of love.
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The World Wide Web project
World Wide Web. The WorldWideWeb (W3) is a wide-area hypermedia information retrieval initiative aiming to give universal access to a large universe of documents. Everything there is online about W3 i…