Free Knowledge Culture Calendar/August 6

Today in 1991 Tim Berners-Lee went public with his World Wide Web, featuring a server, the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), URLs (the web address scheme), and the first browser. This marks the birth of the public face and the driving force of the spread of the Internet, and later the biggest software platform. The Web is the prime example of the success of open standards and would be unthinkable without its coevolution with the free software on which it is built.