Not everything you read online is true, Sir Tim Berners-Lee jested recently, referring to a Wikipedia article about the Web being launched on Christmas day, 1990 (that is, if it hasn’t been edited already… wink, wink).

While version #1990-12-25 of the world’s first ever web software was in fact developed in the late fall of 1990, Berners-Lee said on a panel this week that it was actually completed well before Christmas Eve:

Alberto Ibargüen asks Tim Berners-Lee about exact birthday of World Wide Web from Knight Foundation on Vimeo.

Watch the full panel session featuring Berners-Lee discussing the the future of Web development with Former British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, and Knight President and CEO, Alberto Ibargüen, in Geneva:

Sir Tim and Gordon Brown: How Can the Web Accelerate Social and Economic Change? from Web Foundation on Vimeo.