I mean, technically it was built for "the management of general information about accelerators and experiments at CERN". The fact that it also supports a whole

I mean, technically it was built for "the management of general information about accelerators and experiments at CERN". The fact that it also supports a whole bunch of peoples' passion projects as well as a multi-trillion dollar commercial marketplace is just a bonus... https://www.w3.org/History/1989/proposal.html https://www.w3.org/History/1989/proposal.html