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Day of the Internauta Marks 34 Years Since the Web Opened to the Public

The observance spotlights Berners-Lee’s open-standards vision alongside calls for an inclusive, secure internet.

Por qué se celebra hoy el Día del Internauta
Tim Berners-Lee, físico británico, fue el creador de la primera página web.

Overview

  • Observed on August 23, the commemoration recalls the first public access to CERN’s web server in 1991.
  • Tim Berners-Lee created the web’s core building blocks—HTML, HTTP and URL—along with the first browser-editor and server software.
  • CERN’s 1993 decision to release the web’s source code royalty‑free accelerated global adoption and cemented open access as a guiding principle.
  • Berners-Lee later founded the World Wide Web Consortium at MIT to steward standards and, with Rosemary Leith in 2009, launched the Web Foundation to advance inclusion and safety.
  • Coverage highlights the web’s social impact and ongoing gaps, citing a UN estimate that about 3.7 billion people remain offline and underscoring basic cybersecurity practices such as software updates, use of trusted sites and antivirus protection.