20 years ago the first web server was launched.

On this day, 20 years ago, CERN European Nuclear Research Laboratory in Geneva, software consultant Tim Bernes-Lee stuck a sticker on one of the computers in his laboratory that read "This machine is a server, DO NOT POWER IT DOWN !!” . As stated in the Global Networking: a Timeline document, this world's first web server implemented the “Big Technology Trio”: URL addressing, HTML markup and HTTP protocol in the context of a single client-server model.

In January 2011, the number of Internet users reached 2 billion.