Storiascopio · Era 12 of 12 · lower secondary year 3
The World Wide Web
1991 · CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
In short
At CERN in Geneva, the great European physics laboratory, scientists from many countries struggled to share documents. In 1989 the English computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee proposed a system of pages joined to each other by links, which could be viewed with a program called a browser. In 1991 the World Wide Web was opened to people outside CERN too. In 1993 CERN made it free for everyone, with no fees to pay.
Why it matters The web made the internet easy to use: today billions of people browse from one linked page to another.
Source: CERN, “The birth of the Web”
Where we are in the era “Today”
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Your turn
Name ______________________ Class ______ Date __________
When did it happen? Find the date at the top and write it here:
Tell it in your own words: what happened?
Draw the scene below.
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