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  • The Old World Gets Connected

    May 23, 1903 Paris, France and Rome, Italy are connected by telephone for first time. Feel free to congratulate me for finding this picture at any time. The Old World Gets Connected is original content of This Day in Tech History. This Day in Tech History Tech History provided by This Day in Tech History.com

  • World Wide Web Launched

    May 17, 1991 The first server “web server” in history is set up by Tim Berners-Lee on a NeXTcube at CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland. The launch of this first server is considered the public release of the World Wide Web. World Wide Web Launched is original content of This Day…

  • World Wide Web Made Public Domain

    April 30th, 1993 At the urging of Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of the World Wide Web protocol, the directors of CERN release the source code of World Wide Web into the public domain, making it freely available to anyone, without licensing fees. The decision to make the World Wide Web software and protocols freely available…

  • World Wide Web Made Public Domain

    April 30th, 1993 At the urging of Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of the World Wide Web protocol, the directors of CERN release the source code of World Wide Web into the public domain, making it freely available to anyone, without licensing fees. The decision to make the World Wide Web software and protocols freely available…

  • World of Warcraft Released

    November 23, 2004 Blizzard Entertainment releases the massively multiplayer online role-playing game World of Warcraft. World of Warcraft is currently the most popular online game in history. World of Warcraft Released is original content of This Day in Tech History. This Day in Tech History Tech History provided by This Day in Tech History.com

  • First Commercial Telegram Sent Around the World

    August 20, 1911 The New York Times sends a telegram message to test how fast a commercial message could be sent around the world. Reading simply, “This message sent around the world”, it left at 7 PM, traveled over 28,000 miles and was relayed by 16 different operators. It arrived back at The Times only 16.5…

  • World, Meet the Internet

    July 3, 1969 UCLA issues a press release stating that it “will become the first station in a nationwide computer network which, for the first time, will link together computers of different makes and using different machine languages into one time-sharing system.” It went on to say that “Creation of the network represents a major forward…

  • The Old World Gets Connected

    May 23, 1903 Paris, France and Rome, Italy are connected by telephone for first time. Feel free to congratulate me for finding this picture at any time. The Old World Gets Connected is original content of This Day in Tech History. This Day in Tech History Tech History provided by This Day in Tech History.com

  • World Wide Web Made Public Domain

    April 30th, 1993 At the urging of Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of the World Wide Web protocol, the directors of CERN release the source code of World Wide Web into the public domain, making it freely available to anyone, without licensing fees. The decision to make the World Wide Web software and protocols freely available…

  • World, Meet the Internet

    July 3, 1969 UCLA issues a press release stating that it “will become the first station in a nationwide computer network which, for the first time, will link together computers of different makes and using different machine languages into one time-sharing system.” It went on to say that “Creation of the network represents a major forward…