Tim Berners-Lee—Published 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
| Topic | Direction | Relevance | Contribution |
|---|---|---|---|
| Knowledge Access & Information Freedom | +toward | secondary | +0.50 |
| Open Internet & Web Freedom | +toward | primary | +1.00 |
| Open Source | +toward | primary | +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.