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In what month and year did CERN officially make the World Wide Web technology freely available to the public, marking its open release?
Answer
April 1993
On 30 April 1993, CERN published a statement placing the World Wide Web software in the public domain, making it freely available to everyone. This open release was pivotal in allowing the Web to grow into a global phenomenon.
💡 Did you know?
CERN's decision to release the Web royalty-free in 1993 was not guaranteed — the alternative was licensing it commercially, which could have fragmented the early internet entirely.
Other options people guess
- January 1991
- October 1994
- June 1992
Topics
- world-wide-web
- 1990s
- cern
- internet-history
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