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How many days since the World Wide Web was invented?
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Counting since Sunday, March 12, 1989.
On March 12, 1989, Tim Berners-Lee — then a software engineer at CERN — submitted a proposal titled 'Information Management: A Proposal.' His manager scribbled 'vague, but exciting' on the cover. The Web was born.
Fast facts
- Berners-Lee built the first browser, the first web server, and the first website — all by 1990.
- The first website, info.cern.ch, is still online in restored form.
- CERN put the Web into the public domain on April 30, 1993.
- There are now over a billion websites — though many sit idle.