World Wide Web released into the public domain
1993 · Event
CERN places the Web's underlying software in the public domain, royalty-free, igniting the explosion of the internet age.
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- Isaac Newton (1643)
- De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (1543)
- Manhattan Project (1942)
- The Space Race (1957)
- Invention of the transistor (1947)
- Stephenson's Rocket wins the Rainhill Trials (1829)
- Edison's incandescent light bulb (1879)
- First electronic computer (ENIAC) (1946)
Around 1993
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- Invention of the World Wide Web (1989)
- Dissolution of the Soviet Union (1991)
- September 11 attacks (2001)
- Pop music: the 1990s (1990)
- Pop music: the 2000s (2000)
- Fall of the Berlin Wall (1989)
- Reunification of Germany (1990)
- I Will Always Love You (Whitney Houston) (1992)
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