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PC Gamer
PC Gamer
Jacob Ridley

The World Wide Web was released to the public 30 years ago. Feel old yet?

On April 30, 1993, CERN released the World Wide Web to the planet, free-of-charge.

The "collaborative information system" was used by the scientists at CERN, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, to communicate without delay across countries and continents, but deciding this tool was too useful to keep to themselves, the boffins over at CERN handed out the concept and code for everyone to use.

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