15 years of the World Wide Web
December 14, 2005 at 1:03 PM
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In celebration of 15 years of the World Wide Web, CNN has compiled its list of the 10 greatest moments of the web's first 15 years of existence. In 1990, Tim Berners-Lee launched the World Wide Web, a multimedia branch of the Internet.
March 1989
First project proposal written and circulated for comment (TBL) . Paper "HyperText and CERN" (in ASCII or WriteNow format) produced as background.
October 1990
Project proposal reformulated with encouragement from CN and ECP divisional management. RC is co-author.
November 1990
Initial WorldWideWeb prototype developed on the NeXT (TBL) .
November 1990
Nicola Pellow joins and starts work on the line-mode browser . Bernd Pollermann helps get interface to CERNVM "FIND" index running. TBL gives a colloquium on hypertext in general.
Christmas 1990
Line mode and NeXTStep browsers demonstrable. Acces is possible to hypertext files, CERNVM "FIND", and internet news articles.
We all remember Netscape vs. Microsoft Internet Explorer war, Hotmail offering free e-mail, Yahoo!, eBay, Amazon and of course Google! Probably i forgot some of the important factors in todays World Wide Web. ;-)