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len aby sa nezabudlo odkial sa ta vec zobrala :-) <br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span lang="EN-US">CERN celebrates twenty
years of a free, open web<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Geneva, 30 April 2013 -
Twenty years ago CERN published a
<a href="http://cds.cern.ch/record/1164399">statement</a> 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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The technology, invented in
1989 at CERN by Tim Berners-Lee, was originally conceived and
developed to meet the demand for information sharing between
physicists in universities and institutes around the world.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Other information retrieval
systems that used the Internet - such as WAIS and Gopher - were
available at the time, but the web's simplicity along with the
fact that the technology was royalty free led to its rapid
adoption and development.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">“There is no sector of
society that has not been transformed by the invention, in a
physics laboratory, of the web”, says Rolf Heuer, CERN
Director-General. “From research to business and education, the
web has been reshaping the way we communicate, work, innovate
and live. The web is a powerful example of the way that basic
research benefits humankind.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The first website at CERN -
and in the world – was dedicated to the World Wide Web project
itself and was hosted on Berners-Lee's NeXT computer. The
website described the basic features of the web; how to access
other people's documents and how to set up your own server.
Although the NeXT machine - the original web server - is still
at CERN, sadly the world's first website is no longer online at
its original address.<br>
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<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<span lang="EN-US">To mark the anniversary of the publication of the
document that made web technology free for everyone to use, CERN
is starting a project to restore the first website and to preserve
the digital assets that are associated with the birth of the web.
To learn more about the project and the first website, visit
<a href="http://info.cern.ch">http://info.cern.ch</a></span><br>
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