Berners-Lee

British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web at CERN in 1989.

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Sir Tim Berners-Lee receives A.M. Turing Award

The award is often referred to as the "Nobel Prize" of computing

News
Computing
10 April, 2017

Twenty years of a free, open web

On 30 April 1993 CERN published a statement that made World Wide Web technology available on a royalty free basis, allowing the web to flourish

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Computing
30 April, 2013
Computing
News
30 April, 2013

This month in 1991: The web spreads beyond CERN

Twenty-one years ago this month, physicists at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) installed the first web server outside of Europe

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Computing
20 December, 2012

Higgs boson detected at London Paralympics

The particle was the star of Enlightenment - a science-themed ceremony featuring Stephen Hawking and Ian McKellen

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Physics
30 August, 2012