Geek Fact for April 30th

By Judy Novotny / 04/30/2012 / Geek Facts

In 1993, the source code for the World Wide Web was released into the public domain.

The directors of CERN (Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucleaire) made it freely available to anyone, without licensing fees. This is considered by some as the single most important moment in the history of the Internet. Some historians mark this as the birth of the Web.

Learn more at http://www.livinginternet.com/w/wi_lee.htm#cern

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Judy Novotny

Judy is a computer veteran with 30 years of experience. She has owned everything from a TRS-80, Apple IIe and various Windows-based PCs. She is currently living in her Apple ecosystem at home consisting of an iPhone, iPad, iMac, MacBook, Apple TV, iPod nano and two Time Capsules. She is a fan of all things mobile since she got her first Palm Pilot in 1999. Check out her iPad app, Number Wizard, in the App Store. Follow her on Twitter @junovotech or at Junovo.com.