Save the date to celebrate the Web@30 on 12 March 2019

The Web@30 event is happening at CERN and you can join it from anywhere in the world.

In 1989, CERN was a hive of ideas and information stored on multiple incompatible computers. Tim Berners-Lee envisioned a unifying structure for linking information across different computers, and wrote a proposal in March 1989 called “Information Management: A Proposal”. By 1991, this vision of universal connectivity had become the World Wide Web!

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Most recent highlights from EPN:
Czech electricity grid challenged by German wind by Zbyněk Boldiš
The European Mathematical Society: the home for Mathematics in Europe by Marta Sanz-Solé
Letter to the Editor: crossing borders by Herman C.W. Beijerinck
An eye-witness report on how the WWW came about by Horst Wenninger
Surprises in the Hard X-ray Sky by Thierry J.-L. Courvoisier

Twenty years of free, open web

On 30 April 1993, CERN made the technology behind the World Wide Web available for everyone to use. From that day on, the web has changed all aspects of society, a revolution that can be compared to the invention of the printing-press in the 15th century. To commemorate the 20th anniversary of the free, open web, CERN has started a project to preserve the digital assets that are associated with the birth of the web.

During the 1980s, the internet was already well-known in academic institutions, being mainly used for email…