360What happened in 1993?
3 moments from 1993 on 360n60, each told in 60 words or fewer.
- On this day · 30 April 1993
CERN makes the World Wide Web free for everyone
On 30 April 1993, CERN, the European physics laboratory, put the software for the World Wide Web in the public domain, so anyone could use and build on it without paying fees. That decision helped the web grow from a few hundred websites to more than a billion.
- December 1993 · from The Hubble Space Telescope is launched
Astronauts fix its vision
- 30 April 1993 · from Tim Berners-Lee proposes the World Wide Web
Web technology made free for everyone