The first website opens the Web to Internet users

Berners-Lee's proposal had described a system in principle, but until mid-1991 there was no publicly reachable place demonstrating it in practice or explaining how someone outside CERN could build their own server or browser. The first public website, hosted on a NeXT computer at CERN, published the Web project itself, its background, the technical specifications for HTTP and HTML and instructions for setting up a server. Making the explanation of the technology available through the technology itself let outside physics labs and, soon after, other institutions begin running their own servers and browsers, moving the Web from an internal CERN tool toward a system other organizations could adopt independently.