World Wide Web Proposed Tim Berners-Lee proposes the World Wide Web at CERN.

British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee submitted a proposal at CERN outlining a system for managing and sharing information across a distributed network, laying the groundwork for what became the World Wide Web.At the time, CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research), based in Geneva, Switzerland, was one of the largest internet nodes in Europe. Thousands of scientists from institutions around the world collaborated there, generating large volumes of research data and documentation. However, information was stored on incompatible computer systems, making it difficult to access and share. Berners-Lee’s proposal, titled “Information Management: A Proposal,” described a system using hypertext to link documents stored on different computers across the internet. His supervisor, Mike Sendall, reportedly wrote “Vague, but exciting” on the cover page. The proposal built upon existing internet infrastructure, including TCP/IP protocols and domain name systems, but introduced new concepts such as Uniform Resource Locators (URLs), Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), and Hypertext Markup Language (HTML). Later in 1990, Berners-Lee, working with Belgian systems engineer Robert Cailliau, developed the first web server and web browser at CERN. The first website went live in 1991 and provided information about the World Wide Web project itself. On 30/04/1993, CERN announced that the World Wide Web technology would be made available royalty-free, enabling its widespread adoption. The 12/03/1989 proposal is widely documented as the starting point of the World Wide Web project, which operates as an application layer on top of the internet and remains distinct from the underlying network infrastructure. #WorldWideWeb #TimBernersLee #CERN #InternetHistory #WebHistory