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In March 1989 at the European Particle Physics Labratory, also known as CERN,
Tim Berners-Lee proposed a project that would allow scientists to easily browse
fellow researchers' papers. A later phase of the project would allow scientists to
create new documents on their servers. Tim was strongly influenced by Ted Nelson's self-published Literary Machines 90.1 (Nelson 1980), but unlike Nelson, Tim was not at all concerned about the copyright of his materials, the royalties, or even tracking the usage as clients moved among servers. However grand the name, the World Wide Web was to be lean and mean. By October 1990, Tim's project was underway. By December 1990, a line-mode browser (similar to Lynx) and a NeXTStep browser were implemented, and access was available to hypertext files, as well as to Usenet newsgroups within CERN. |