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On 30 April 1993, at Tim Berners-Lee's urging, CERN released the code for the World Wide Web to the public for free.

Thank you CERN and thank you Tim!

You can learn more about the history of the Web including how the development of the Web was picked up at W3C at: "A Little History of the World Wide Web"
w3.org/History.html

A Little History of the World Wide Web