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By the end of 1990, Tim Berners-Lee had the first web server and browser running at CERN. The first website was hosted on his NeXT computer.

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By the end of 1990 Tim Berners-Lee had the first web server and browser running at CERN — the entire World Wide Web, at that moment, fit on a single desk.

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1990'ın sonunda Tim Berners-Lee, CERN'de ilk web sunucusunu ve tarayıcısını çalıştırmıştı. İlk web sitesi onun NeXT bilgisayarında barındırıldı.
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1990'ın sonunda Tim Berners-Lee, ilk web sunucusunu ve tarayıcısını CERN'de çalıştırıyordu — bütün World Wide Web, o an, tek bir masaya sığıyordu.

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S15 CERN Web History; S35 CERN Birth of the Web

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