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Good old Bitnet, and the rise of the World Wide Web

Senior physicist Richard Jacobsson remembers the early days of the World Wide Web at CERN

Opinion
Computing
12 March, 2014

On the open internet and the free web

David Foster on our responsibility as individuals to preserve an open internet and a free web for the benefit of humankind

Opinion
Computing
12 March, 2014
Computing
Opinion
12 March, 2014

Not at all vague and much more than exciting

CERN computer scientist Maria Dimou on Tim Berners-Lee's vision for a free, open World Wide Web

Opinion
Computing
12 March, 2014
Computing
Opinion
12 March, 2014

Why bring back the line-mode browser?

A team of web developers are working to build a simulator of one of the earliest web browsers, the line-mode browser

Opinion
Computing
19 September, 2013
Computing
Opinion
19 September, 2013

How the internet came to CERN

François Flückiger on his being inducted to the Internet Hall of Fame, and the story of how the internet came to CERN

Opinion
Computing
27 June, 2013
Computing
Opinion
27 June, 2013

Twenty years of a free and open www

Robert Cailliau on the birth of the web, early brainstorming sessions and "how to spread this thing"

Opinion
Computing
30 April, 2013
Computing
Opinion
30 April, 2013

The open internet and the web

Vinton G Cerf, one of the "Fathers of the internet", on the architecture, connectivity and openness of the web

Opinion
Computing
30 April, 2013
Computing
Opinion
30 April, 2013