Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web as an essential tool for high energy physics at CERN from 1989 to 1994. Sir Tim Berners-Lee, a British computer scientist born in London.
For many of us, the web is a huge part of our lives, enabling us to communicate and access knowledge that would have been unobtainable just a few decades ago. And it all started with one man.
After graduating from Oxford University, Berners-Lee became a software engineer at CERN , the large particle physics laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland. Scientists come from all over the world to use its accelerators, but Berners-Lee noticed that they were having difficulty sharing information.
'In those days, there was different information on different computers, but you had to log on to different computers to get at it. Also, sometimes you had to learn a different program on each computer. Often it was just easier to go and ask people when they were having coffee,' Berners-Lee explained in a World Wide Web Consortium interview (W3C).
Berners-Lee saw a solution to this problem – one that he thought could have broader applications. Already, millions of computers were being connected together through the fast-developing internet , and Berners-Lee realised these computers could share information by using an emerging technology called hypertext.
In March 1989, Berners-Lee laid out his vision for what would become the web in a document called Information Management: A Proposal . But Berners-Lee’s initial proposal was not immediately accepted. In fact, his boss at the time, Mike Sendall, wrote 'vague but exciting' on its cover. The web was never an official CERN project, but Sendall managed to give Berners-Lee time to work on it in September 1990. Berners-Lee started the work on a NeXT computer , one of Steve Jobs’ early products.
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