Inventors & Engineers · Digital
Tim Berners-Lee & the Web
How a CERN physicist combined hypertext with the internet in 1989–91: URLs, HTTP and HTML, the decision to make it royalty-free, the W3C, and his later push for data ownership (Solid).
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Key idea
Prereqs: Networking basics. Next: Read Write Own; the attention economy. Sources: Berners-Lee, *Weaving the Web* (1999); his 1989 CERN proposal 'Information Management: A Proposal'; W3C history.Next: 1. Timeline