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Physics World 30th anniversary podcast series – 30 years of the World Wide Web
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On the 30th anniversary of the birth of the World Wide Web at CERN, the Physics World Stories podcast visits the particle-physics lab in Geneva to learn how things developed from an esoteric proposal to something that has changed the world forever.
The Web is for everyone and collectively we hold the power to change it
Tim Berners-Lee
Physics World magazine has also recently turned 30 and we have been celebrating with a five-part podcast series exploring key developments in physics. This fifth and final episode revisits the birth of the World Wide Web at CERN in the late 1980s. In March 1989 British physicist turned computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee produced the now-famous document entitled “Information management: a proposal”. Over the past three decades, this modest origin has evolved into a globally connected web of computing systems, transforming the way we live our lives.
To mark the occasion, Physics World Stories host Andrew Glester visits CERN to meet some of the scientists who were there in the early years of the Web. Along the way he meets, Jean-François Groff (see left), François Flückiger, Ben Segal and Tim Berners-Lee’s former boss Peggy Rimmer.
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