World Wide Web Consortium

On 30 April 1993, CERN's Directors declared that the three components of Web software (the basic line-mode client, the basic server and the library of common code) that Tim Berners-Lee @timbl had first proposed in 1989, were to be put in the Public Domain.

We are grateful to CERN and to Tim for this world changing decision which has enabled the W3C community to create open, accessible, international web standards which make the web work, for everyone.
https://home.web.cern.ch/science/computing/birth-web/licensing-web

Licensing the Web

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Apr 30, 2025 at 3:20pmWeb
Show threadMark HobsonApr 30, 2025
@w3c @timbl The original hyperlink was double-click?!
Show threadMartin BukatovičApr 30, 2025
@markhobson @w3c @timbl single click was already taken (it was used for editing), the WorldWideWeb client was meant to allow users to create web pages as easily as they were able to read them
Show threadAJCxZ0Apr 30, 2025

@w3c

"the basic line-mode client"

That's how I discovered the World Wide Web: www on CERNVM, the IBM ES/9000-900 behemoth.

https://info.cern.ch/
https://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html
https://line-mode.cern.ch/
https://cerncourier.com/a/computing-at-cern-the-mainframe-era/

#CERN #WWW #WorldWideWeb #W3 #Hypertext #HTML #HTTP #IBM #ES9000

Show threadFlorian MarquardtApr 30, 2025

@w3c @timbl And the picture shows the first graphical 'WorldWideWeb' browser, running on the NeXTStep system, which was way ahead of its time. In particular, it had the great InterfaceBuilder to easily produce GUIs plus DisplayPostScript for nice vector graphics.

We had a NeXTCube and then a NeXTstation...

#NeXT

Show threadAnthony DavidApr 30, 2025

@FMarquardtGroup @w3c @timbl

I worked at Data General at the time when we became NeXT distributors, to fill our product line with a graphics workstation.

Doom was originally developed on NeXT workstations. A lot of creativity happened in that short period of NeXT Inc's existence.

Show threadJuan Per¢ent,🇲🇽 🍉,🇻🇪Apr 30, 2025
@w3c @timbl I am surprised that an innovation that so profoundly changed so many things, dare I say, disruptive, did not have the profit motive at its root.