content/news/2016-08-06-www25.md

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   2 title: Happy Birthday to the World Wide Web
   3 author: Swant
   4 date: 2016-08-06 22:06+00:00
   5 slug: www25
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   8 25 years ago—On the 6'th of August 1991—the world's first website went live,
   9 and it's [still there](http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html).
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  11 In other words, the world wide web is celebrating silver jubilee today.
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  13 Imagine where we would've been without it. Would your project exist? Would
  14 freenode exist?
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  16 On behalf of freenode, I'd like to give all our sponsors a big shoutout, for
  17 making freenode possible—read more about who they are on our [acknowledgements
  18 page](https://freenode.net/acknowledgements).
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  20 And lastly we would like to thank you, the people that use freenode, the people
  21 who use freenode for your projects, the people that contribute to keeping the
  22 internet full of Free and Open Source Software. You are a part of what took the
  23 internet this far and a part of what keep it, and a lot of other tech related
  24 things, evolving.
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  26 Stay with us, it's freenode's porcelain jubilee this year, keep chatting, keep
  27 the internet open.