Birthplace of The European Internet
CWI is one of the "birthplaces" of the Internet in Europe. The first connection in Europe to the NSFnet network, which later developed into the current Internet, was established at CWI on 17 November 1988 by Piet Beertema, and cwi.nl was the first national domain name ever issued anywhere.
Even today, the Amsterdam Internet Exchange (the largest Internet Exchange in the world, in terms of both members and throughput traffic) is located at the neighbouring SARA (an early CWI spin-off) and NIKHEF institutes. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) office for the Benelux countries is located at CWI.
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