20 years ago today, on April 30 1993, CERN contributed the technologies underpinning the World Wide Web to the royalty-free public domain. These simple technologies — the humble URL, HTTP, and HTML — were developed by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN in the early '90s, but it wasn't until they were open-sourced that the WWW actually became the web. If CERN had decided otherwise, much of what you …
