The World Wide Web is opened to the public.

The World Wide Web is a global interconnected information system that enables content sharing over the Internet. It facilitates access to documents and other web resources according to specific rules of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP).

Chrome on Linux
Chrome on Linux (Source: Wikimedia Commons)
The world’s first web server, exhibited at CERN in Geneva. DSC03299
The world’s first web server, exhibited at CERN in Geneva. DSC03299 (Source: Wikimedia Commons)
Internet Key Layers
Internet Key Layers (Source: Wikimedia Commons)
WorldWideWebAroundWikipedia
WorldWideWebAroundWikipedia (Source: Wikimedia Commons)

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Sources and further reading: Wikipedia — World Wide Web (CC BY-SA). Images: Wikimedia Commons.