The web is born - Photos: Key events of the past 20 years of the web

Photos: Key events of the past 20 years of the web

The web is born

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Source: W3C

The web is born

Tim Berners-Lee's original proposal at Cern in March 1989. This became the foundation for the World Wide Web. Berners-Lee noted: 'what is required is a gateway program which will map an existing structure onto the hypertext model, and allow limited (perhaps read-only) access to it. This takes the form of a hypertext server written to provide existing information in a form matching the standard interface. One would not imagine the server actually generating a hypertext database from and existing one: rather, it would generate a hypertext view of an existing database'.

 

The world wide web celebrates its 20th birthday tomorrow and to wish the web a very happy birthday, we have compiled a picture gallery of some of the web's key events in that time.

 

 

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