Twenty years ago today, Tim Berners-Lee dreamed up the most novel invention of our time: the World Wide Web. His initial proposal, which was drafted in March 1989, provided the building blocks for the Hyper Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP). The first website to go online was Tim’s own in 1991. His site, which was a directory listing of all the sites to date, was run on a NeXT computer.
I’m sure Tim would never have believed the idea of the World Wide Web would take off like it has. It seems that everything we do involves a web browser and web pages written in any variety of languages. So, the next time you load a web page, you can thank Tim Berners-Lee.
[via ComputerWorld]
