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What I still dont get: was this server accessible from anywhere, or just from within the local cern network? when were the root nameservers put into service, so you could access any server via an URL? I'm guessing the infrastructure for the internet was already in place - what Tim Berners-Lee established was a new protocol that enabled the simple exchange of documents between remote computers... Am I getting this right?



It was accessible throughout the Internet. If you knew the http protocol you could telnet to port 80 and get pages (still works today).




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