Web History

The World Wide Web had its origins in high energy physics. Tim Berners-Lee, one of its originators, was a physicist at CERN, a laboratory in Switzerland. He came here in mid- 1992, and some of us were so impressed with his idea that we put up a web server -- one of two in the US put up at that time. This is a picture of how the World Wide Web looked at that time -- it was text only, but the promise was in its independence of the computing platform you were using and its ability to present various data formats, glued together with hypertext. This first page is actually points to "active" pages where the information comes from databases. These are hot topics in the world of the Web right now.

Tim Berners-Lee is now Director of the World Wide Web Consortium hosted at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Laboratory for Computer Science. Here is the information on the history of the Web that the W3C Web site.

If you want to learn more about the origins of the Internet, The Web Developer's Virtual Library has a good introduction called About the Internet.