Last Friday, August 6, the World Wide Web celebrated its 30th anniversary. Nikhef pensionado Kees Huyser was interviewed by RTL news and the Algemeen Dagblad about his role in the 
development of the WWW in 1991. Half a year later, in February 1992, Nikhef itself had the third website in the world and the first in the Netherlands. Kees Huyser was the fourth webmaster in the world and the second in the Netherlands after Nikhef colleague Willem van Leeuwen.
The World Wide Web was developed at CERN, the European organization for nuclear research. At CERN, thousands of physicists from hundreds of institutes around the world conduct research into the building blocks of matter. A good exchange of information by these physicists is therefore essential. Two IT people at CERN, Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau started the World Wide Web project in 1989, looking for a way to facilitate the exchange of information between the different institutes affiliated with CERN. They developed the web standards HTTP and HTML. Read more about the history of the WWW and Nikhef’s role in it.
Watch the videos:
RTL-Z nieuws of 16.00hrs on 6 August
Algemeen Dagblad – video – first website in the world launched thirty years ago
(Please note, the interviews are in Dutch only)