33 years ago: Origin of the WWW
Actually, Tim Barners-Lee originally only wanted to do something against data loss at his employer. However, it was precisely that document of a web page system that made history in March 1989. Today, it is considered the founding document of the World Wide Web.
Thirty-three years ago, Tim Berners-Lee laid the foundation for the World Wide Web. Originally, the scientist only designed the Web page system to help his colleagues at CERN in Bern communicate information across different computer systems. The engineer originally developed the WWW in 1989 under the name "Mesh".
In 1989 Berners-Lee and other researchers developed the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) based on his proposal, which is still used by computers to exchange data.
First website went live at the end of 1990
Finally, in 1990, the first website went online. Berners-Lee, who was born in London in 1955, did not patent his invention. At that time at CERN, there was also no possibility of exchanging information via the protocol.
In 1994, Berners Lee founded the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and has held the 3Com Founders Chair at the Laboratory for Computer Science there since 1999. In addition, the "Internet father" has held a chair at Oxford University since 2016.
In his own blog he advocates for young entrepreneurs, but also warns against censorship and abuse of power by large corporations.
