In March 1989, Tim Berners-Lee a British computer scientist who work at the European Center of Nuclear Research (CERN) submit a proposal to develop a radical new way of linking and sharing information and document over the internet.  The name of this proposal : the World Wide Web !

Cern-1989
The first document who explain the World Wide Web

The first website in the world was at CERN and it was dedicated to the World Wide Web project itself. In 1993 the CERN put it in Public Domain and with this made faster the expension of the WWW. At the end of the year 1993 there were over 500 known web servers and the WWW represented 1% of Internet traffic. At the end of the “web year” 1994 Web servers were 10,000 and 10 million users, birth of Yahoo. You can watch what looked like websites on the fabulous WayBackMachine.

In 2014 they have 920,000,000 website and Amazon is the leader in number of webserver with 118,000 webserver . Everyday 2,700,000,000 persons go on the web.

First World Wide Page
First World Wide Page

Today for this 25th anniversary a special website was launch to celabrate this with a special message of Tim Berners-Lee himself.