History of TheWebConf series

The World Wide Web was first conceived in 1989 by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. The first conference of the series, WWW1, was held at CERN in 1994 and organized by Robert Cailliau.
The International World Wide Web Conference Committee (IW3C2) was founded by Joseph Hardin and Robert Cailliau later in 1994 and has been responsible for the conference series ever since. Except for 1994 and 1995 when two conferences were held each year, WWW became an annual event held in April or May. The location of the conference rotates among America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. In 2001 the conference designator changed from a number (1 through 10) to the year it is held; i.e., WWW11 became known as WWW2002, and so on.

Starting in 2018, The brand of the conference has been changed and the series is now named The Web Conference or in brief TheWebConf and starting in 2022, the conference became an ACM/SIGWEB event and the rotation between the three geographical areas is no longer the rule.

In 2022 the IW3C2 adopted new by-laws and it is no longer involved in the organization of the TheWebConf. Its new mission is to manage funds from gifts or donations to grant awards for publications presented during these conferences, and particularly the Seoul Test of Time Award.

Below are information about past conferences in the series until 2025.

Warning: as this site is only an archive, some links in the pages available below may be broken.

The First International WWW Conference

Host:	CERN
Date:	May 25-27, 1994
Venue:	CERN, Geneva, Switzerland/France

www1 (1994)	www2 (1994)
www3 (1995)	www4 (1995)
www5 (1996)	www6 (1997)
www7 (1998)	www8 (1999)
www9 (2000)	www10 (2001)
www2002	www2003
www2004	www2005
www2006	www2007
www2008	www2009
www2010	www2011
www2012	www2013
www2014	www2015
www2016	www2017
www2018	www2019
www2020	www2021
www2022	www2023
www2024	www2025
Proceedings
big2014	big2015
big2016	big2017

Host:	SDG at UIUC OSF CERN
Date:	October 17-20, 1994
Venue:	Ramada-Congress Hotel, 520 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Host:	Fraunhofer Gesellschaft/Institute for Graphic Design (FhG/IGD) Technical University of Darmstadt
Date:	April 10-14, 1995
Venue:	Darmstadt, Germany

Host:	The MIT Laboratory for Computer Science the OSF Research Institute W3C
Date:	December 11-14, 1995
Venue:	Boston Marriott Copley Place, and at the Hynes Convention Center

Host:	INRIA
Date:	May 6-10th, 1996
Venue:	CNIT-Paris La Défense, France

Host:	SLAC
Date:	April 7-11, 1997
Venue:	Santa Clara, California USA

Host:	Consortium of Southern Cross University & Partners
Date:	April 14-18, 1998
Venue:	Convention & Exhibition Center, Brisbane, Australia

Host:	University of Toronto
Date:	May 11-14, 1999
Venue:	Toronto Convention Centre, Toronto, Canada

Host:	Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI)
Date:	May 15 - 19, 2000
Venue:	Amsterdam, Netherlands

Host:	The Chinese University of Hong Kong The University of Hong Kong Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Hong Kong Productivity Council The Hong Kong Information Technology Federation The Hong Kong Web Symposium Consortium Ltd Hong Kong Computer Society
Date:	May 1-5, 2001
Venue:	Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center

Host:	University of Hawaii Pacific Telecommunications Council (PTC)
Date:	May 6-11, 2002
Venue:	Honolulu, Hawaii, USA

Host:	Hungarian Academy of Sciences Computer and Automation Research Institute
Date:	May 20-24, 2003
Venue:	Budapest, Hungary

Host:	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Date:	May 17-22, 2004
Venue:	New York, USA

Host:	Beihang University
Date:	April 21-25, 2008
Venue:	Beijing, China

Host:	Keio University
Date:	May 10-14, 2005
Venue:	Chiba, Japan

Host:	University of Southampton
Date:	May 23-26th, 2006
Venue:	Edinburgh International Conference Centre, UK

Host:	University of Calgary
Date:	May 8-12, 2007
Venue:	Banff, Alberta, Canada

Host:	Universidad Politécnica de Madrid Madrid municipality
Date:	April 20-24, 2009
Venue:	Madrid, Spain

Host:	North Carolina State University University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Date:	April 26-30, 2010
Venue:	Raleigh Convention Center, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA

Host:	IIIT - Bangalore
Date:	March 28 - April 1, 2011
Venue:	HICC, Hyderabab, India

Host:	Université de Lyon
Date:	April 16-20, 2012
Venue:	Lyon Convention Centre, Lyon, France

Host:	Brazilian Internet Steering Committee Brazilian Network Information Center
Date:	May 13-17, 2013
Venue:	Windsor Barra Hotel, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Host:	KAIST KATS
Date:	April 7-11, 2014
Venue:	COEX, Seoul, Korea

Host:	Sapienza Università di Roma Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie della Cognizione
Date:	May 18-22, 2015
Venue:	Florence, Italy

Host:	Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
Date:	April 11-15, 2016
Venue:	Palais des congrès, Montreal, Canada

Host:	W3Events Pty Ltd
Date:	April 3-7, 2017
Venue:	Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre, Perth, Western Australia

Host:	Web4Good
Date:	May 13-17 2019
Venue:	Hyatt Regency Hotel, San Francisco, California, USA

Host:	Academia Sinica Computer Society of the Republic Of China (CSROC)
Date:	April 20-24, 2020
Venue:	Taipei Moved on-line due to Covid-19 crisis

Host:	Jozef Stefan Institute
Date:	April 19-23, 2021
Venue:	Ljubljana, Slovenia Moved on-line due to Covid-19 crisis

Host:	School of Information at The University of Texas at Austin
Date:	April 30 - May 4, 2023
Venue:	AT&T Hotel and Conference Center at The University of Texas at Austin.

Host:	School of Computing and Information Systems at Singapore Management University
Date:	May 13 - 17, 2024
Venue:	Resorts World Sentosa Convention Centre

Host:	the Faculty of Engineering and IT at University of Technology Sydney
Date:	April 28 - May 2, 2025
Venue:	ICC Sydney: International Convention & Exhibition Centre