More history: 15 years of the world-wide web

Posted by Vic Laurie
September 18, 2006

This year there seem to be a lot of articles celebrating various anniversaries. This year marks 15 years for the Web and InternetWeek gives some history. Here’s how WWW began:

In late summer of 1991, an information technology consultant named Tim Berners-Lee posted an unassuming message to the alt.hypertext newsgroup, making public a project he had been working on for the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN). He began, “The WorldWideWeb (WWW) project aims to allow links to be made to any information anywhere.”

With that memo, Tim Berners-Lee changed the world. No one — not even Berners-Lee himself — saw it coming. Not on this magnitude

General, History of technology, Internet topics

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