The first web page was created by Tim-Berners Lee, a British scientist at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, located on the French-Swiss border near Geneva. The page went live at CERN on Dec. 20, 1990, and was opened up to the high-energy physics community on Jan. 10, 1991.
But it wasn’t until August of that year that Berners-Lee made the project public by posting a summary of it on several online forums, lastly on Aug. 22.
Some time later, Aug. 23, 1991 was named “Internaut Day,” which is now celebrated annually to recognize the launch of the World Wide Web. Although Berners-Lee is not sure why that date was chosen.
Internaut is a portmanteau of the words Internet and astronaut and refers to a designer, operator, or technically capable user of the Internet.
Internet + Astronaut = Internaut
Glossary : A portmanteau is a linguistic blend of words, in which parts of multiple words, or their phones (sounds), and their meanings are combined into a new word.
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