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How Tim Berners-Lee Gave Away the World Wide Web for Free in 1993

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Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web at CERN in 1989 as a way for physicists to share information by linking documents. In 1993, CERN released the Web's foundational source code into the public domain, meaning anyone could use it for any purpose without fees or permission. The decision came at a pivotal moment when the Web's main rival, Gopher, lost developer trust after the University of Minnesota announced licensing fees for its server software. Berners-Lee and colleague Robert Cailliau had already been pushing CERN to make the Web royalty-free, anticipating exactly this kind of backlash. Unlike patent holders such as Unisys, who charged licensing fees even for a simple image format, Berners-Lee deliberately chose not to monetize a technology that would become the foundation of the modern internet.

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