World Wide Web was 15 years yesterday

[LadeJarl]

15 years and one day ago CERN announced that the web had become public property. Mosaic became the web browser of the day, and the search engine was a web-page with links to all the web servers in the world.

[frabjous]

It may have become "public property" in some sense then (meaning that CERN announced it would be free to use), but it existed before that. I distinctly recall using the Web in 1992 (with Lynx or possibly an early version of Nexus IIRC). Wikipedia dates it to 1989, but I don't know how accurate that is. We used gopher more often then, but that quickly changed.