BleepingComputer.com: Tim Berners-Lee Inventor Of The World Wide Web

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November 4 was the fifteenth birthday of the World Wide Web. Which was in fact invented by Tim Berners-Lee. So in order to mark the occasion, I offer you the story behind this great man, and a brief history timeline of the Internet. From where it all began in 1945 the veritable stoneage of computing. Through the 90's, which even today whilst looking back, seems quite ancient in comparision to how far we have come. So follow me if you will, and take an informative and captivating walk through history. ~ Scarlett
</b><br /><br /> In 1989,Tim Berners-Lee proposed a global hypertext project, to be known as the World Wide Web. Based on the earlier "Enquire" work, it was designed to allow people to work together by combining their knowledge in a web of hypertext documents. He wrote the first World Wide Web server, "httpd", and the first client, "WorldWideWeb" a what-you-see-is-what-you-get hypertext browser/editor which ran in the NeXTStep environment. This work was started in October 1990, and the program "WorldWideWeb" first made available within CERN in December, and on the Internet at large in the summer of 1991.

Tim Berners-Lee Biography<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /><br /> <div class='newslinks'><img src='http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/public/style_images/1/cs_page.gif'> <b>Link: <a href='http://www.pbs.org/opb/nerds2.0.1/timeline/' target='_blank'><font color='red'>PBS.org Nerds 2.0.1_Timeline Before 1969 </font></a><br /><img src='http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/style_images/1/cs_page.gif'> <b>Link: <a href='http://www.pbs.org/opb/nerds2.0.1/timeline/70s.html' target='_blank'><font color='red'>PBS.org Nerds 2.0.1 Timeline_1969-1979</font></a><br /><img src='http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/style_images/1/cs_page.gif'> <b>Link: <a href='http://www.pbs.org/opb/nerds2.0.1/timeline/80s.html' target='_blank'><font color='red'>PBS.org Nerds2.0.1 Timeline_1980-1989</font></a><br /><img src='http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/style_images/1/cs_page.gif'> <b>Link: <a href='http://www.pbs.org/opb/nerds2.0.1/timeline/90s.html' target='_blank'><font color='red'>PBS.org Nerds 2.0.1 Timeline_1990_1998 </font></a><br />

I could have sworn the code for the WWW was developed by a Scandanavian.

And that is not all he has accomplished.

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http://www.consortiuminfo.org/bulletins/semanticweb.php

Nonsense - We all know Al Gore invented the WWW

Seriously, though, I do recall seeing the name of Berners-Lee on several occasions while reading about AI and Expert Systems. His accomplishments speak for themselves.

On an unrelated note, Does anyone know if there is an online version of "Whimsical Conversations"?

John - You would be my first guess as a possible source.

This is interesting. I thought it was the USA government. "ARPANET," but I guess the "modern" internet is more based on this.

Also if anyone is interested the earliest "network" was back in the 1930's. It was used for the power grids. (not sure of the exact details.) But in my Hardware class we started networks and our teacher briefly mentioned it.

Sorry Yano, I was just being silly.

Arpanet was a network for communication. Berners-Lee invented a better way to communicate over that already existing network. The WWW is just the software that runs on the internet.

And, by the way, the "Information Superhighway" did become public in 1993 when Gore signed a law making it public.

BanditFlyer, on Nov 8 2005, 08:22 PM, said:

So Al Gore did invent the Internet. Well he help make it what it is today.