from slate.com |
Came across this article on slate.com thought it was semi interesting,on Aug. 6, 1991, a scientist at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) named Tim Berners-Lee unveiled a project for organizing information that he called the World Wide Web. Of the many individual projects that went into creating the Internet as we know it, this was one of the most significant steps toward bringing the Internet to the general public. In honor of the World Wide Web’s 20th birthday party, we’ve dug up some embarrassing baby photos for the occasion.
In 1989, Berners-Lee submitted a proposal for a linked system of information to keep track of all the documents at the laboratory. He called it “Mesh” at the time, but later went with “World Wide Web.” His boss responded that the idea was “vague but exciting.”