World Wide Web Made Public Domain (opens in new tab)

April 30, 1993 At the urging of Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of the World Wide Web protocol, the directors of CERN release the source code of World Wide Web into the public domain, making it freely available to anyone, without licensing fees. The decision to make the World Wide Web software and protocols freely available… World Wide Web Made Public Domain is original content of This Day in Tech History.