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CERN
Tim Berners-Lee submits a proposal for a distributed information system at CERN -
FIRST WEBSITE AND SERVER
The world's first website and server go live at CERN -
Berners-Lee posts a summary of the project on alt.hypertext
On 6 August 1991, Tim Berners-Lee posted a summary of the World Wide Web project on several internet newsgroups, including alt.hypertext, which was for hypertext enthusiasts. The move marked the debut of the web as a publicly available service on the internet. -
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The web extends to the high-energy-physics community
In 1991, an early WWW system was released to the high-energy-physics community via the CERN program library. It included the simple browser, web server software and a library, implementing the essential functions for developers to build their own software. A wide range of universities and research laboratories started to use it. A little later it was made generally available via the internet, especially to the community of people working on hypertext systems. -
First web server outside of Europe
The first web server outside of Europe was installed on 12 December 1991 at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) in California. -
CERN releases WorldWideWeb source code
On 30 April 1993 CERN issued a statement putting the Web into the public domain, ensuring that it would remain an open standard. The organization released the source code of Berners-Lee's hypertext project, WorldWideWeb, into the public domain the same day. -
Tim Berners-Lee founds the World Wide Web Consortium
In October 1994, Tim Berners-Lee founded the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) – at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology laboratory for computer science