World Wide Web Day 2026: August 1, Theme 'Energy-Aware Web and AI Systems for Sustainability'

Exam-focused facts from the 3 August 2026 current affairs briefing.

Key facts

World Wide Web Day is observed annually on August 1.
The theme for World Wide Web Day 2026 is 'Energy-Aware Web and AI Systems for Sustainability'.
The World Wide Web was invented by Tim Berners-Lee in 1989 at CERN.
The first website went live on August 6, 1991.
CERN released the World Wide Web software into the public domain in 1993.
The Internet is the global network, while the World Wide Web is a service that uses HTTP, HTML, and URLs.