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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