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Bringing the Web to America

P F Kunz · CERN

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About

On 12 December 1991, Dr. Kunz installed the first Web server outside of Europe at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. Today, if you do not have access to the Web you are considered disadvantaged. Before it made sense for Tim Berners-Lee to invent the Web at CERN, there had to a number of ingredients in place. Dr. Kunz will present a history of how these ingredients developed and the role the academic research community had in forming them. In particular, the role that big science, such as high energy physics, played in giving us the Web we have today....

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  1. Bringing the Web to America 1999-09-17 · 1 min · CERN's player

Credits and licence

Institution
CERN
Department
Science and Society
Speaker
P F Kunz
Year
1999
Language
English
Subjects
Computer science
Source
CERN
Licence
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