5751 AM · 1991 CE · world history
The Internet and the World Wide Web
The first website goes live at CERN, and a scientists' network becomes a common space.
The network existed since 1969, but few could use it. Tim Berners-Lee combines three simple ideas — addresses, a markup language and a transfer protocol — and in August 1991 publishes the first public website. The technology is released free of charge, and within a decade hundreds of millions are online.