World Wide Web Day 2023: Date, History, Significance And How To Celebrate

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World Wide Web Day is celebrated on August 1 every year. It is a day dedicated to commemorating the birth of the World Wide Web (www) and recognising its impact on the world.

World Wide Web Day is celebrated on August 1 every year because it was on this day in 1991 that Tim Berners-Lee posted a proposal for the World Wide Web on the alt.hypertext newsgroup.

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World Wide Web Day 2023: History

The World Wide Web, commonly known as the Web, was created by Sir Tim Berners-Lee in 1989 while he was working at CERN (the European Organisation for Nuclear Research).

In March 1989, Berners-Lee submitted a proposal for a "distributed information system" to facilitate sharing and updating information among researchers at CERN. The first web server, "httpd," and the first web browser, "WorldWideWeb" (later renamed Nexus), were created by Berners-Lee and his colleague Robert Cailliau in 1990.

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On August 6, 1991, the world's first website went live. It was a simple page that explained the World Wide Web project and provided information about how to access and use it. This website was hosted on Berners-Lee's NeXT computer, which also served as the world's first web server.

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