Newswire: 30 April 2013 - CERN - CERN celebrates twenty years of a free, open web

Geneva - Twenty years ago CERN* published a statement that made the World Wide Web ('W3', or simply 'the web') technology available on a royalty free basis. By making the software required to run a web server freely available, along with a basic browser and a library of code, the web was allowed to flourish.