World Wide Web invented
In 1989, British scientist at CERN Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web (WWW). He developed it to enable the automatic sharing of information between scientists in universities and other global institutes.
The idea was to combine the technologies of personal computers, computer networking and hypertext.
Formal proposal setting out concepts and terms
Berners-Lee wrote a proposal of the WWW at CERN in 1989. The following year, Belgian systems engineer Robert Cailliau helped to refine the proposal further. In November 1990, they published a formal proposal that showed principal concepts and defined specific terms behind the web.
The project described a hypertext named WorldWideWeb, where a web of hypertext documents could be explored by browsers.
The first web address
An interface was provided to encourage the adoption of the WWW and applied to CERN's computer centre documentation and its help service.
The world's first website was Infor.cern.ch, and the first web page address was http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html.
It focused on information regarding the WWW project, teaching about hypertext, technical know-how for creating a webpage, and instructions on how to search the web for information.
