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<p>930430</p> <h1>ORGANISATION EUROPEENNE POUR LA RECHERCHE NUCLEAIRE</h1> <h2>CERN EUROPEAN ORGANIZATION FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH</h2> <h2>STATEMENT CONCERNING CERN W3 SOFTWARE RELEASE INTO PUBLIC DOMAIN</h2> <h3>TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN</h3> <h3>Introduction</h3> <p>The World Wide Web, hereafter referred to as W3, is a global computer networked information system.</p> <p>The W3 project provides a collaborative information system independent of hardware and software platform, and physical location. The project spans technical design notes, documentation, news, discussion, educational material, personal notes, publicity, bulletin boards, live status information and numerical data as a uniform continuum, seamlessly intergated with similar information in other disciplines.</p> <p>The information is presented to the user as a web of interlinked documents .</p> <h3>Acces to information through W3 is:</h3> <ul> <li>via a hypertext model;</li> <li>network based, world wide;</li> <li>information format independent;</li> <li>highly platform/operating system independent;</li> <li>scalable from local notes to distributed data bases.</li> </ul> <p>Webs can be independent, subsets or supersets of each other. They can be local, regional or worldwide. The documents available on a web may reside on any computer supported by that web.</p>