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The World Wide Web — Berners-Lee Opens the Internet to the World
On December 20, 1990, Tim Berners-Lee put the first website in history online on a NeXT computer at CERN (info.cern.ch). On August 6, 1991, he announced the project on the alt.hypertext newsgroup and opened access to the world. From 1 site in 1990 to 1.13 billion hostnames counted in 2024 (of which roughly 200 million active sites), the Web has become the informational infrastructure of civilization.
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