On February 26th, 1991, the inventor of the World Wide Web and the file transfer protocol, Tim Berners-Lee, showed the new technology to his colleagues at CERN. The first version of the Web was created by Berners-Lee on a NeXT Computer at CERN, and was completed on Christmas Day 1990. The World Wide Web was first released to a group of physicists, and its use spread outward from there. The World Wide Web entered the public domain in 1993.
