Historical contribution
What Berners-Lee contributed
His 1989 and 1990 proposals joined hypertext with Internet networking. He implemented the first Web server, browser-editor and website, and helped define URLs, HTTP and HTML as a practical publishing system.
Why it mattered
The Web made distributed documents easier to publish, address and connect, turning the Internet into a broadly usable information space.
Connected topics
Where this fits in ITEM
Evidence
Sources and further reading
- Information Management: A Proposal, CERN, March 1989
Tim Berners-Lee · 1989
- WorldWideWeb: Proposal for a HyperText Project, CERN, November 1990
Tim Berners-Lee, Robert Cailliau · 1990
- WorldWideWeb, the first Web client, W3C
Tim Berners-Lee
- Licensing the Web: public releases of Web software, including the 30 April 1993 statement
CERN · 1993
- RFC 1630: Universal Resource Identifiers in WWW, June 1994
Tim Berners-Lee · 1994
- RFC 1866: Hypertext Markup Language 2.0, November 1995
Tim Berners-Lee, Dan Connolly · 1995
- Roy Fielding and Henrik Frystyk, RFC 1945: HTTP/1.0, May 1996
Tim Berners-Lee · 1996
- The World Wide Web: A Very Short Personal History, 1998
Tim Berners-Lee · 1998