World Wide Web Day is celebrated on August 1 every year. It is a day dedicated to commemorating the birth of the World Wide Web (www) and recognising its impact on the world. World Wide Web Day is celebrated on this day because it was on this day in 1991 that Tim Berners-Lee posted a proposal for the World Wide Web on the alt.hypertext newsgroup.

• World Wide Web Day is significant because it is a time to reflect on the impact of the web on our lives and to celebrate the ingenuity of Tim Berners-Lee and the many others who have contributed to its development.
• The day is a reminder of the power of the internet to connect people and share information. It is also a day to celebrate the creativity and innovation that has made the web what it is today.

History of the day

The World Wide Web, commonly known as the Web, was created by Sir Tim Berners-Lee in 1989 while he was working at CERN (the European Organisation for Nuclear Research). In March 1989, Berners-Lee submitted a proposal for a "distributed information system" to facilitate sharing and updating information among researchers at CERN. The first web server, "httpd," and the first web browser, "WorldWideWeb" (later renamed Nexus), were created by Berners-Lee and his colleague Robert Cailliau in 1990. On August 6, 1991, the world's first website went live. It was a simple page that explained the World Wide Web project and provided information about how to access and use it. This website was hosted on Berners-Lee's NeXT computer, which also served as the world's first web server.