50 Jahre – WWW – 50 Years
30. April 2023 08:50 Uhr | Dr. Ulrich Kampffmeyer | Permalink
Der 30.04.1993 ist ein historisches Datum. Vor 50 Jahren stellte Tim Berners-Lee über das CERN den Programmcode für das World Wide Web kostenfrei für die gesamte Welt zur Verfügung: https://bit.ly/42i5BoQ. Die erste Webseite stellte Berners-Lee bereits am 06.09.1991 online (https://bit.ly/3VriyuA). Das CERN feiert den 30. April als offizielles Datum. Die beiden damaligen CERN-Direktoren Walter Hoogland and Helmut Weber entschieden sich, das Werkzeug, das Berners-Lee bereits 1989 vorgestellt hatte und im Forschungsnetzwerk des CERN im Einsatz war, der Öffentlichkeit zur Verfügung zu stellen.
Wer bereits mit der Vorläufer Arpanet „zu Gange“ war, stürzte sich dann schnell auf das neue Medium Internet. Bei PROJECT CONSULT sollte es noch fast 4 Jahre bis zur ersten eigenen Webseite im WWW dauern (https://bit.ly/3ufpUSS). Damals war der Massenerfolg erst am Horizont absehbar. Heute ist die Welt ohne Internet und WWW kaum mehr denkbar. Informationsverfügbarkeit, Globalisierung, Handel, Werbung, Filme usw. sind ohne das WWW nicht denkbar.
Aus der Pressemitteilung:
„Public domain: then and now
The release of the World Wide Web was launched by an internal document, addressed “to whom it may concern” and signed by Hoogland and Weber. Back In 1993, copyright licensing standards were in the very first stages of development. In this first release, the document states that “CERN relinquishes all intellectual property rights to this code, both source and binary form, and permission is granted for anyone to use, duplicate, modify and redistribute it.”
However, as the open source concept was further developed, in 1994, the next version of the software was released under an open source licence, as opposed to a public domain release. This meant that CERN still retained the copyright, but anybody who wished to could use and modify the Web freely.
Releasing the World Wide Web to the public has arguably allowed it to grow into the giant it is today. Making it free and accessible to everyone was a move reflecting CERN’s core values of open collaboration for the benefit of society. This is now encapsulated in CERN’s Open Science Policy, which perpetuates the culture of openness and sharing at the Laboratory.„
Vielen Dank an Tim Berners-Lee und das CERN!
Translated by Deepl.com
The 30.04.1993 is a historic date. 50 years ago, Tim Berners-Lee made the program code for the World Wide Web available free of charge to the entire world via CERN: https://bit.ly/42i5BoQ. Berners-Lee put the first Web page online as early as Sept. 6, 1991 (https://bit.ly/3VriyuA). CERN celebrates April 30 as the official date. The two CERN directors at the time, Walter Hoogland and Helmut Weber, decided to make available to the public the tool that Berners-Lee had already presented in 1989 and that was in use in the CERN research network.
Who was already „to go“ with the forerunner Arpanet, rushed then fast on the new medium Internet. With PROJECT CONSULT it should last still nearly 4 years up to the first own web page in the WWW (https://bit.ly/3ufpUSS). At that time the mass success was only foreseeable on the horizon. Today, the world is hardly imaginable without the Internet and WWW. Information availability, globalization, trade, advertising, movies, etc. are inconceivable without the WWW.
Many thanks to Tim Berners-Lee and CERN!
