Modern Era · Europe · Technology

1989

Berners-Lee proposes the Web

March 12, 1989

Tim Berners-Lee, a thirty-three-year-old British physicist at CERN, circulated a quiet proposal for a system of hypertext documents linked over the internet. His boss wrote vague but exciting in the margin. Within five years the World Wide Web would be open to the public and starting to swallow every other form of media.

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Also in 1989 (8 other events on record)

Berlin Wall falls · Europe · Politics
Tiananmen Square massacre · East Asia · Politics
Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan · Central Asia · War
Beginning of Tiananmen protests · East Asia · Politics
Velvet Revolution begins in Prague · Europe · Politics
Ceausescu executed · Europe · Politics

Before and after in Europe

Before: December 21, 1988: Lockerbie bombing
After: March 11, 1990: Lithuania declares independence

Before and after in Technology

Before: January 24, 1984: Apple Macintosh
After: May 1990: Hubble and first web server

Era

Modern Era (1901–2000), one of 590 events from that era on Saeculum.

Sources

Wikipedia: Tim Berners-Lee