Web design history [part 3]

The availability of CERN 's files was announced in the UseNET newsgroup, alt.hypertext, on Aug 6 1991, 1:37 pm according to Google's Usenet Timeline. This was the first time that the availability of the files was announced to the public.

As the message says:

"The WWW project merges the techniques of information retrieval and hypertext to make an easy but powerful global information system.

The project started with the philosophy that much academic information should be freely available to anyone. It aims to allow information sharing within internationally dispersed teams, and the dissemination of information by support groups. [.]" The message ends with a "Try it" encouraging. And we all did and never stop using it since then, it grew and grew and now for billions of people it's part of their lives.

Also Tim says in the The World Wide Web: A very short personal history

"In 1980 I played with programs to store information with random links, and in 1989 , while working at the European Particle Physics Laboratory, I proposed that a global hypertext space be created in which any network-accessible information could be referred to by a single "Universal Document Identifier". Given the go-ahead to experiment by my boss, Mike Sendall, I wrote in 1990 a program called "WorlDwidEWeb", a point and click hypertext editor which ran on the "NeXT" machine. This, together with the first Web server, I released to the High Energy Physics community at first, and to the hypertext and NeXT communities in the summer of 1991. Also available was a "line mode" browser by student Nicola Pellow, which could be run on almost any computer. The specifications of UDIs ( now URIs ), HyperText Markup Language ( HTML ) and HyperText Transfer Protocol ( HTTP ) published on the first server in order to promote wide adoption and discussion."