360What happened in 1991?
4 moments from 1991 on 360n60, each told in 60 words or fewer.
- On this day · 6 August 1991
The first website goes public
On 6 August 1991, Tim Berners-Lee posted a public summary of his World Wide Web project and opened the first website to the world. Hosted at CERN, it explained what the web was and how to make web pages. Today there are more than a billion websites.
- On this day · 25 August 1991
Linus Torvalds announces Linux
On 25 August 1991, the Finnish student Linus Torvalds posted a message announcing a free operating system he was writing 'just a hobby, won't be big'. Linux grew into one of the world's most important pieces of software, running most web servers, supercomputers and Android phones.
- 1991 · from The 1990s: the World Wide Web goes public
First website; Soviet Union dissolves
- 1991 · from Tim Berners-Lee proposes the World Wide Web
First website goes online