In March 1989, Tim Berners-Lee wrote the first proposal for the World Wide
Web at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, in Geneva,
Switzerland.
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| The Web: A proposal |
Titled "Information Management: A Proposal", the document opened with this
statement: "This proposal concerns the management of general information about
accelerators and experiments at CERN. It discusses the problems of loss of
information about complex evolving systems and derives a solution based on a
distributed hypertext system."
The proposal, submitted on March 13, built on ideas that Berners-Lee had been
working on with Belgian systems engineer Robert Cailliau. Outlining the central
concepts and defining terms behind the Web, the document described a "hypertext
project" called "WorldWideWeb" in which a "web" of "hypertext documents" could
be viewed by "browsers."
None of this technical jargon may sound especially sexy, but today, this
system has come to touch nearly every part of our lives. Here's a look at how
the Web got started.
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