HTML is 20 Years Old ...

On March 12, 1989 Tim Berners-Lee was working as a consultant at CERN where he wrote a proposal to help solve the problem of lost data and information.  In this proposal Berners-Lee developed the concept of "hyper-text". READ MORE

"Happy 20th Birthday, World Wide Web", Scientific American Article

CERN did not transfer the rights to the concepts developed by Berners-Lee to the public domain until April 30, 1993. 

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