# Bringing the Web to America

- Institution: CERN
- Department: Science and Society
- Speaker: P F Kunz
- Year: 1999
- Language: English
- Subjects: Computer science
- Source: [CERN](https://videos.cern.ch/record/3005304)
- Licence: [CERN](http://copyright.web.cern.ch)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

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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## Lectures

1. [Bringing the Web to America](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/cern/3005304/6aeabbd98bd5), 1 min (CERN's player)