Photos

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Looking back: the birth of the web

1 / 15    The first web server, used by Tim Berners-Lee in 1990 » download

2 / 15    Tim Berners-Lee, 1994 » download

3 / 15    Robert Cailliau, 1995 » download

4 / 15    Tim Berners-Lee with Nicola Pellow, the writer of the line-mode browser for the World Wide Web next to the NeXT computer in 1991. » download

5 / 15    The document that officially put the World Wide Web into the public domain on 30 April 1993. » download

6 / 15    Tim Berners-Lee demonstrates the World Wide Web to delegates at the Hypertext 1991 conference in San Antonio, Texas. » download

7 / 15    An image of the first page of Tim Berners-Lee's proposal for the World Wide Web in March 1989. » download

8 / 15    A screen shot on the NeXT screen, Tim Berners-Lee's computer with the HyperText application used to browse the WWW in 1990. » download

9 / 15    Tim Berners-Lee at the RSIS conference, December 2003 » download

10 / 15    Tim Berners-Lee during the World Summit on the Information Society, 2003 » download

11 / 15    Tim Berners-Lee and Kofi Annan during the WSIS, 2003 » download

12 / 15    The "Internet, Web, What's next?" conference on 26 June 1998 at CERN » download

13 / 15 Robert Cailliau, Web pioneer, in front of the NeXT computer and original proposal for the Web at CERN's Microcosm museum in June 2007 » download

14 / 15 Robert Cailliau, Web pioneer, in front of the LHC exhibit at CERN's Microcosm museum in 2004 » download

15 / 15 Robert Cailliau, Web pioneer, in 2001 » download

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