WWW INVENTED BY SIR TIM BERNERS-LEE COMPLETED 25 YEARS OF UNIVERSAL EXISTENCE

"WWW" INVENTED BY SIR TIM BERNERS-LEE COMPLETED 25 YEARS OF UNIVERSAL EXISTENCE 

Twenty-five years ago, the World Wide Web was just an idea in a technical paper from an obscure, young computer scientist at a European physics lab.

That idea from Tim Berners-Lee at the CERN lab in Switzerland, outlining a way to easily access files on linked computers, paved the way for a global phenomenon that has touched the lives of billions of people.

History of the World Wide Web 

Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1989, about 20 years after the first connection was established over what is today known as the Internet. At the time, Tim was a software engineer at CERN, the large particle physics laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland. Many scientists participated in experiments at CERN for extended periods of time, then returned to their laboratories around the world. These scientists were eager to exchange data and results, but had difficulties doing so.Tim understood this need, and understood the unrealized potential of millions of computers connected together through the Internet.

As the world marks the 25th anniversary of the World Wide Web today, its inventor is calling on more people to take action this year to keep the online resource open, global, accessible and free of censorship.

Tim also wrote the first Web page editor/browser (“WorldWideWeb”) and the first Web server (“httpd“). By the end of 1990, the first Web page was served. By 1991, people outside of CERN joined the new Web community. 

Very important to the growth of the Web, CERN announced in April 1993 that the World Wide Web technology would be available for anyone to use on a royalty-free basis.

British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee, who first proposed the Web in March 1989, said in a statement today: “If we want a Web that is truly for everyone, then everyone must play a role in shaping its next 25 years.”

Leading that initiative will be the World Wide Web Foundation and standards body the World Wide Web Consortium, the two organisations which Berners-Lee founded and help run.

He called on people to sign up and join the “Web We Want Campaign” at webwewant.org. Co-organised by the Web Foundation, the campaign provides information on how people can participate in events and actions in their respective countries or communities to defend users’ rights on the Web.

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