farsighted beforeMyspace Tomforced us to piece favored friends orMark Zuckerbergtried to make " poking " a thing ( itstill exists , by the way ) , a software engineer namedTim Berners - Leeproposed a little something called the World Wide vane .
On March 12 , 1989 , the then-33 - year - old British information processing system scientist detail his vision for a unified computer net in a document called " Information Management : A Proposal . " masses were n’t immediately stoke — but they were connive . Mike Sendall , Berners - Lee ’s chief at Switzerland - establish big particle physic testing ground , CERN , offered the tone , " vague but exciting . " The undermentioned year , Sendall allowed the untested Oxford grad time to work on his mania project .
The endeavor was born from thwarting . Berners - Lee was just essay to troubleshoot an annoying issue when he composed his proposal . " In those day , there was different info on unlike computer , but you had to lumber on to different calculator to get at it , " hewrote in an FAQ to students . " Also , sometimes you had to learn a different program on each estimator . Often it was just well-situated to go and ask people when they were take coffee . " In an cause to work the inefficiency , Berners - Lee suggestedbuilding a " large hypertext database with typed links . "
By the fall of 1990 , Berners - Lee hadcreated a few important technologiesthat you might recognize by name : HTML ( HyperText Markup Language ) , the arrange language for the connection ; URI ( Uniform Resource Identifier or URL ) , the unique " address " used to describe each resource on the WWW ; and HTTP ( Hypertext Transfer Protocol ) , which let for the recovery of unite resource from the web . He also compose the first web page editor program / web browser with the not - so - catchy name , WorldWideWeb.app , and created the first web host , " httpd " .
By the remainder of that twelvemonth , Berners - Lee made the very first internet webpage , and by 1991 , he started lease the great unwashed out of doors of CERN into the new online creation . " The conclusion to make the World Wide Web an overt system was necessary for it to be universal,“he wrote . " You ca n’t project that something be a ecumenical infinite and at the same time keep control of it . "
And so Berners - Lee and others advocated for CERN to permanently make the underlying code available on a royal house - loose basis , and in April 1993 , that vision became a reality . The rest ( followers , troll , memes , gifs , stories , snaps , etc . , etc . ) is story .
