World Wide Web

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The World Wide Web was born at CERN

CERN’s Original World Wide Web Project

The WorldWideWeb (W3) is a wide-area hypermedia information retrieval initiative aiming to give universal access to a large universe of documents.

Everything there is online about W3 is linked directly or indirectly to this document, including an executive summary of the project, mailing lists, policy, W3 news from November, frequently asked questions.

Explore

What's out there?
Pointers to the world's online information, subjects, W3 servers, etc.
Help
On the browser you are using
Software products
A list of W3 project components and their current state (e.g. Line Mode, X11 Viola, NeXTStep, Servers, Tools, Mail robot, Library).
Technical
Details of protocols, formats, program internals, etc.
Bibliography
Paper documentation on W3 and references.
People
A list of some of the people involved in the project.
History
A summary of the history of the project.
How can I help?
If you would like to support the web...
Getting code
Getting the code by anonymous FTP, etc.