The web’s most important decision: CERN putting the WWW into the public domain. “Nobody owned the web, and the web wasn’t licensed. It was simply a part of the world, for anybody to use, distribute, or modify.”
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The web’s most important decision: CERN putting the WWW into the public domain. “Nobody owned the web, and the web wasn’t licensed. It was simply a part of the world, for anybody to use, distribute, or modify.”
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