WWW: Thirty years since three letters changed the world

We humans have just one birthday, but the Internet has at least three. The World Wide Web, the idea that made the Internet easy to access and paved the way for the likes of Google, Amazon and Facebook, is now celebrating one of its most significant birthdays. — dpa

GENEVA: There’s no general consensus on what day the World Wide Web was born. Thirty years ago, on April 30, 1993, the European Nuclear Research Centre Cern made the World Wide Web (WWW) available to the public.

But the birthday of the web could also be Aug 6, 1991, the day the web concept was published in a group on Usenet. Or it could be the time around Christmas 1990, when the first web server went online.