History of the World Wide Web April 19, 2007

FREE event; registration required on the website www.swissnex.org

A presentation by James Gillies about the history and pre-history of the WWW, covering the period from the 1940's to 1994.
James Gillies is Head of Communications at CERN in Switzerland, the world's largest laboratory dedicated to fundamental physics research, and the place where Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1989. He co-authored the book 'How the Web was Born'.

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