Modern Era · Europe · Technology

1991

World Wide Web opens to the public

August 6, 1991

Tim Berners-Lee posted a short message to an obscure internet newsgroup announcing the availability of the WorldWideWeb project and its software. The first website went live. There were perhaps a dozen servers on the whole planet. Within six years there would be a million. The great remaking of human communication had started very quietly.

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In context

Also in 1991 (6 other events on record)

Soviet Union dissolved · Europe · Politics
Mount Pinatubo Erupts · Southeast Asia · Disaster
Yugoslavia begins to break up · Europe · War
Gulf War begins · Middle East · War
Soviet coup attempt · Europe · Politics
Yeltsin elected Russian president · Europe · Politics

Before and after in Europe

Before: October 3, 1990: German reunification
After: February 7, 1992: Maastricht Treaty signed

Before and after in Technology

Before: May 1990: Hubble and first web server
After: May 6, 1994: Channel Tunnel opens

Era

Modern Era (1901–2000), one of 590 events from that era on Saeculum.

Sources

Wikipedia: World Wide Web