A freebie from CERN
April 30, 1992 was a huge day in the Internet world.
That’s the day that CERN (the physics lab in Geneva where World Wide Web creator Tim Berners-Lee worked) declared that the Web would be free for all to use. If a royalty structure had been imposed (and it certainly could easily have been) the Internet would be a mere subset of the essential behemoth it has become today.
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