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World Wide Web was launched on May 17, 1991

Post author By M. Özgür Nevres
Post date May 17, 2022
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The first Web server on the World Wide Web — This NeXT workstation (a NeXTcube, monitor Cern 57503) was used by Tim Berners-Lee as the first Web server on the World Wide Web. Photo by Coolcaesar at the English-language Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, Link

On May 17, 1991, the English computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee set up the first web server in history. This event marks the public release of the World Wide Web. Tim Berners-Lee is known as the inventor of the World Wide Web.

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Z3, the world’s first fully functional and programmable computer was unveiled on May 12, 1941

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Post date May 12, 2022
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Zuse Z3, the first programmable computer replica — Zuse Z3 replica on display at Deutsches Museum in Munich.Photo by Venusianer, CC BY-SA 3.0, Link

On May 12, 1941 Z3, the world’s first fully functional and programmable digital computer was unveiled by its designer, the German pioneering computer scientist Konrad Zuse (22 June 1910 – 18 December 1995).

Zuse began to develop Z3 in 1935 and completed it in 1941. But, because of World War II, it was not considered “vital” and was never put into practical use.

Thanks to Z3 and its predecessors, Z1, and Z2, Konrad Zuse has often been suggested as the inventor of the computer.