World Wide Web Day observed on August 1 honors internet pioneer Tim Berners‑Lee

World Wide Web Day is celebrated each year on August 1 to mark the public launch of the World Wide Web in 1991 and to recognize its creator, British computer scientist Tim Berners‑Lee. The observance is informal and not an official United Nations holiday, but schools, tech groups and digital communities worldwide mark the date with discussions on topics such as digital literacy, safe internet use, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, online privacy and equal access to information.

The web originated from research at CERN in Switzerland, where Berners‑Lee proposed a system for sharing scientific data in 1989 and developed the first web browser, server and HTML language. The first public website went live in early August 1991, establishing the foundation for the modern internet that now connects billions of users globally.