20 Years Ago Today: The Web Was Proposed from the how-far-we've-
come dept If you want to realize just how amazing the level of
progress has been with the internet, realize this: it was just
20 years ago, today, that Tim Berners-Lee proposed the web:
HyperText is a way to link and access information of various
kinds as a web of nodes in which the user can browse at will. It
provides a single user-interface to large classes of information
(reports, notes, data-bases, computer documentation and on-line
help). We propose a simple scheme incorporating servers already
available at CERN.Quite amazing what that one, quite small,
project has since become. The project has two phases: firstly we
make use of existing software and hardware as well as
implementing simple browsers for the user's workstations, based
on an analysis of the requirements for information access needs
by experiments. Secondly, we extend the application area by also
allowing the users to add new material. Phase one should take 3
months with the ful