In the 1980s Tim Berners-Lee was working at CERN and observed how difficult it was to keep track of the projects and computer systems of the thousands of researchers at work. He studied various programs from every existing computer.
In March 1989 Berners-Lee presented his manager at CERN with a proposal to create an information management system that used hypertext. The goal is to make it easier to link documents even if you use a different computer. However, the system must be connected to the internet and labeled “Vague But Exciting” or cryptic but interesting. But the proposal was not accepted.
Not giving up, the Berners-Lee team worked closely with Robert Cailliau, an engineer from Belgium who was also a colleague at CERN. The proposal was finally accepted in 1990.
Starting from an information management project, Berners-Lee developed it by creating an Information Mine and Information Network which is now called the World Wide Web or (WWW).
After receiving the proposal, at the end of 1990 Berners-Lee and his colleagues began exploring various things using NeXT designed by Steve Jobs. As a result the foundation of the web began to form. He also created Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) for creating Web pages, Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), which is a set of rules for transferring data over the Web, and Uniform Resource Locators (URL) or web addresses for finding documents or pages. He has also designed the basic browser and web server software.
Until finally on August 6, 1991, Berners-Lee published his first website. The site that contains the first online guide on how to create and describe the web and how to use it. The site address is:
http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html.
In 1993, the University of Illinois National Center for Supercomputing Applications team released Mosaic, which was the world's first web browser that the general public could use. The discovery opened various other websites such as Yahoo (1994), Amazon (1995), Google (1998) to Facebook (2004).
In 1994, the creator of the website finally left CERN. He chose the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and later founded the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
W3C is an organization that maintains standards for the web. For his work, Tim Berners-Lee received various awards. Like being one of Time Magazine's 100 Most Important People of the 20th Century and being knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 2004.
In 2009, Berners-Lee created the World Wide Web Foundation, an organization focused on ensuring that the Web benefits humanity. It seems that the purpose of the organization is successful with the emergence of billions of useful sites to date.
