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Tim Berners-LeePublished the first website, making the World Wide Web operational

On December 20, 1990, Tim Berners-Lee published the first website from CERN, making it available to the Internet. He wrote the first web client and server in 1990, and refined his specifications of URIs, HTTP and HTML as Web technology spread.

Scoring Impact

TopicDirectionRelevanceContribution
Knowledge Access & Information Freedom+towardsecondary+0.50
Open Internet & Web Freedom+towardprimary+1.00
Open Source+towardprimary+1.00
Overall incident score =+0.983

Score = avg(topic contributions) × significance (critical ×2) × confidence (0.59)

Evidence (1 signal)

Confirms product_decision Dec 20, 1990 verified

Tim Berners-Lee published the first website on December 20, 1990

Tim Berners-Lee published the first website from CERN on December 20, 1990, making it available to the Internet. He wrote the first web client and server in 1990.

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