30 years ago on April, 29 1997, CERN introduced the World Wide Web

30 years ago on April, 29 1997, CERN introduced the World Wide Web more commonly known today as the internet.

The idea was orginally proposed in 1989 to allegedly allow scientists and institutes working on CERN data all over the world to share information accurately and quickly.

Two days ago CERN released this video interview and article titled '30 years of a free and open web'... what a bunch of crap. The internet hasn't been free and open since it's conception...

'Fun' Fact: Interestingly, the Hebrew equivalent of our “w” is the letter “vav” or “waw”, which has the numerical value of 6. So the English “www” transliterated into Hebrew is “vav vav vav” or 666.