{"id":6446,"date":"2026-08-06T00:50:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T04:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6446"},"modified":"2025-12-15T17:45:49","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T22:45:49","slug":"world-wide-web-became-available-to-the-public-in-1991","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6446","title":{"rendered":"World Wide Web Became Available to the Public in 1991"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>World Wide Web became available to the public in 1991<\/strong>. Sir Tim Berners-Lee developed a system of sharing files between computers. Within five years 40 million people were using the Web. Today almost 2.5 billion people use the Web. Berners-Lee could have become wealthy from his invention, but he wanted the Web to remain free and open. Children would find the following timeline interesting: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/internet\/2014\/03\/11\/world-wide-web-timeline\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Timeline<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World Wide Web became available to the public in 1991. Sir Tim Berners-Lee developed a system of sharing files between computers. Within five years 40 million people were using the Web. Today almost 2.5 billion people use the Web. Berners-Lee could have become wealthy from his invention, but he wanted the Web to remain free <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6446' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4434,5768,202,4677],"class_list":["post-6446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-4434","tag-august-6","tag-tim-berners-lee","tag-world-wide-web","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6446"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23440,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6446\/revisions\/23440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}