First website goes online
1990 · Event
On a NeXT computer at CERN, Berners-Lee's server info.cern.ch goes live with the world's first web page — a page explaining what the World Wide Web is.
On these timelines: The Digital Revolution, Master, Science & Technology, United Kingdom (combined)
More from The Digital Revolution
- Invention of the World Wide Web (1989)
- Turing's On Computable Numbers (1936)
- Google founded (1998)
- Moore's Law formulated (1965)
- Mosaic makes the web visual (1993)
- Turing's Computing Machinery and Intelligence (1950)
- Apple II launched (1977)
- First networked email sent (1971)
Around 1990
- Gulf War (1990)
- Yugoslav Wars (1991)
- Dissolution of the Soviet Union (1991)
- Chernobyl disaster (1986)
- (Everything I Do) I Do It for You (Bryan Adams) (1991)
- That's The Way Love Goes (Janet Jackson) (1993)
- Pop music: the 1980s (1980)
- Pop music: the 1990s (1990)
- Pop music: the 2000s (2000)
- Fall of the Berlin Wall (1989)