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World Wide Web Day 2025 – August 01
August 5 , 2025
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- It is a day dedicated to commemorating the birth of the World Wide Web (www) and recognising its impact on the world.
- On this day in 1991 that Tim Berners-Lee posted a proposal for the World Wide Web on the alt. hypertext newsgroup.
- The World Wide Web, commonly known as the Web, was created by Sir Tim Berners-Lee in 1989.
- He had submitted a proposal for a "distributed information system" to facilitate sharing and updating information among researchers at CERN.
- The first web server, "http," and the first web browser, "WorldWideWeb" (later renamed Nexus), were created by Berners-Lee and his colleague Robert Cailliau in 1990.
- The theme for 2025 is ‘Empowering the Future: Building an Inclusive, Safe, and Open Web’.
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