- World Wide Web Day is celebrated every year on 1 August.
- It is celebrated to commemorate the beginning of the World Wide Web (www).
- The World Wide Web was first made available to the public on 1 August 1991. It was introduced by Tim Berners-Lee.
- In 1989, Berners-Lee proposed a "distributed information system" for sharing and updating information among scientists at CERN.
- The first web browser, the World Wide Web (later named Nexus), was developed by Berners-Lee and his colleague Robert Cailliau.
- The world's first website went live on 6 August 1991.
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