Did you see a message card from Facebook today morning asking you to participate in celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Internet? That is because research organisation CERN, where father of the World Wide Web Tim Berners-Lee worked while he had developed world wide web, marks 23 August as the day of the invention of the World Wide Web. In March 1989, CERN scientist Tim Berners-Lee wrote a proposal to develop a distributed information system for the Laboratory. At that time, the World Wide Web enabled scientists to share information across the world; the source code was later released into the public domain in April 1993. If seen otherwise, Tuesday is not the 25th anniversary of the internet or the world wide web.

Source: Hindustan Times August 23, 2016 11:59 UTC