TBL’s idea of the Web
IDEA No 21
THE PROJECT
In March 1989, while working at CERN, the British scientist Tim Berners-Lee recognized that although CERN was nominally organized in a hierarchical structure, it was in fact an interconnected web. It needed an information-sharing system to match. He proposed using hyperlinks to connect and share documents over the internet. He called this idea The Project.
The invention of the World Wide Web was celebrated at the Opening Ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games.
Most of the technology for the Project already existed. People had been sharing information over the internet for a decade or so. Hypertext ...
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