The World Wide Web was born at CERN in 1989. Learn more about its development by Tim Berners-Lee and see the reconstruction of the first website here.

At first, the web was just an information-sharing tool for scientists, but public web pages were later added with information about the organisation’s activities for a wider audience. To ensure this resource was preserved for future generations, CERN entered into a partnership agreement to add regular in-depth crawls of CERN's public web pages to the standard harvesting carried out by the Internet Archive. You can browse these pages on the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine