{"id":19178,"date":"2013-04-30T13:04:21","date_gmt":"2013-04-30T18:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techcitement.com\/?p=19178"},"modified":"2013-04-30T14:19:09","modified_gmt":"2013-04-30T19:19:09","slug":"happy-twentieth-birthday-world-wide-web","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/internet-2\/happy-twentieth-birthday-world-wide-web\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Twentieth Birthday, World Wide Web"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today marks the twentieth birthday of the world wide web project. The concept was invented by Physicist Tim Berners-Lee in 1989 at the CERN laboratories in Geneva, Switxerland, but the web wasn&#8217;t put into the <a title=\"CERN Document Server\" href=\"https:\/\/cds.cern.ch\/record\/1164399\">public domain<\/a> until April 30, 1993. It was this making the technology available and royalty-free, along with a code library and basic browser, that allowed the birth of the web as we know it.<\/p>\n<p>So what did the first web page look like? Various snapshots of it have been preserved over the years, but CERN didn&#8217;t preserve the original URL (though it owns the NeXT server that originally hosted the site) &#8212; until now. <a href=\"http:\/\/info.cern.ch\/hypertext\/WWW\/TheProject.html\">Go here to visit a piece of internet history<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On a more personal level, do you remember the first website you visited? What about your first email address? Or IM handle?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today marks the twentieth birthday of the world wide web project. The concept was invented by Physicist Tim Berners-Lee in 1989 at the CERN laboratories in Geneva, Switxerland, but the web wasn&#8217;t put into the public domain until April 30, 1993. It was this making the technology available and royalty-free, along with a code library [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":19186,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1920],"tags":[4615,2990,2746,2046,4613,4616,4617,4614],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19178"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19178"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19181,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19178\/revisions\/19181"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}