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LIVE: Today the World Wide Web is 30 years old

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The World Wide Web is 30 years old today. On this occasion, CERN will commemorate the anniversary with a series of celebrations around the world, including an event which is being broadcast live, featuring the main protagonists behind this invention.

The brains behind the WWW, Tim Berners-Lee, will be analysing the origins of this invention, the present situation and the future evolution of the web. This will be done through a talk which Berners-Lee will have with a number of other web pioneers, technology experts, and thinkers.

It was in 1989 when various ideas emerged from one of the largest physics laboratories in the world, CERN, which was keeping a mine of information stored on various computers. Tim Berners-Lee had a vision of connecting all the computers so that they would all have access to this information.

In March 1989, he proposed what he described as ‘Information Management: A Proposal’ by means of which, by 1991, his vision of connecting the world through the World Wide Web became a reality.

Follow the transmission on TVM2 which will be broadcast live from CERN this morning between 8am t0 10.3pm. This transmission will end tomorrow at 10pm on TVM2.

More information about the celebrations marking 30 years of the World Wide Web can be obtained from CERN’s website: https://web30.web.cern.ch/.