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Mar 12, 2019, 21 tweets

Happy 30th birthday World Wide Web!

Follow the celebrations today via #web30

Webcast starting shortly: cern.ch/web30

It begins!

Let's start celebrating 30 years of the World Wide Web!

Follow the #web30 webcast: cern.ch/web30

"The Web has been an incredible and powerful tool to reach out to the whole world, to break down barriers, to bring education and information to all and thus to reduce inequalities." Fabiola Gianotti - CERN Director General #web30 cern.ch/web30

Now starting: "Let’s Share What We Know" panel discussion

Frédéric Donck chairs a panel including Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Robert Cailliau, Jean-François Groff, Lou Montulli, Zeynep Tufekci looking at the early days of the Web.

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Sir @timberners_lee,
Web inventor,
Director of @w3c & Founding Director of @webfoundation

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Jean-François Groff,
Web pioneer and entrepreneur

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Robert Cailliau, Web pioneer

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Lou Montulli, Web pioneer and entrepreneur

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Zeynep Tufekci @zeynep techno-sociologist, writer & assistant professor @uncsils

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As part of CERN’s celebrations of the 30th anniversary of the Web, an international team recreated the WorldWideWeb browser home.cern/news/news/comp…

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Bruno Giussani, Global Curator of @TEDTalks and Chair of @fifdh

#web30
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Sir @timberners_lee,
Web inventor,
Director of @w3c & Founding Director of @webfoundation

#web30
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.@timberners_lee now beings a 30-hour journey, so @CERN gave him his original Web proposal sonified and on a format familiar in 1989: a walkman.

What were you doing in 1989?
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Now starting: "Towards the Future" panel discussion

Bruno Giussani chairs a panel including Doreen Bogdan-Martin, Jovan Kurbalija, Monique Morrow, Zeynep Tufekci looking at aspects that technology evolution can bring us.

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Zeynep Tufekci @zeynep techno-sociologist, writer & assistant professor @uncsils

#web30
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.@moniquejmorrow
Chief Technology Strategist, President & Co-Founder
of the Humanized Internet

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Doreen Bogdan-Martin
@ITU_BDTDirector @ITU

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.@jovankurbalija Executive Director, Secretariat of @UNSGdigicoop,
Founding Director of @DiplomacyEdu, Head of @GenevaGIP

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"What makes the Web so wonderful is its openness, but that also brings challenges"
Charlotte Lindberg Warakaulle, @CERN Director for International Relations
@cwarakaulle

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📸 Retrieve the pictures from today's celebration for #Web30

cds.cern.ch/record/2665683…

🎂 Happy 30th birthday World Wide Web!

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Watch the recordings of today's celebration:

facebook.com/cern/videos/58…

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