On August 6 1991, Tim Berners-Lee (now Sir),
posted a short summary of the World Wide Web project on the alt.hypertext newsgroup.
The message read: "The WWW project aims to allow all links to be made to any information anywhere."
Previously the web was used to allow physicists at the CERN physics laboratory to share data, news and documentation, but Berners-Lee's post released the technology to the general public.
By making the web openly available and royalty free, it quickly advanced to a globally used service, no longer the secret of the technologically minded.
In the 20 years that followed, the web has become a daily part of modern life.
