World Wide Web Launched

World Wide Web Launched

29 years ago today, the first server “web server” in history is set up by Tim Berners-Lee on a NeXTcube at CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland. The launch of this first server is considered the public release of the World Wide Web.

First Internet Domain Registered

First Internet Domain Registered

35 years ago today, the first Internet domain symbolics.com is registered by Symbolics, a Massachusetts computer company. The rest is pretty much history.