Berners-Lee, in 1989, wrote the original proposal to use hypertext to “link and access information of various kinds as a web of nodes in which the user can browse at will”. When the project was released to the public domain on this day in 1993 the official document announcing it referred to it as “a global computer networked information system” It went on to state that “CERN’s intention in this is to further compatibility, common practices, and standards in networking and computer supported collaboration”.
The original browser, simply called “World Wide Web” is still available for download today. The file size is measured in kilobytes, as opposed to today’s browsers which are many times that size.