Tim Berners-Lee - Inventing the Web in 1990
In 1990, Tim Berners-Lee used the existing Internet to create the World Wide Web. He created a markup language named HTML and wrote the first browser program which simply translates the HTML codes into a web page display.
The power of the Web
The Web was a side project for Tim Berners-Lee while he was working at the European Particle Physics Laboratory in CERN.
Originally he had a difficult time getting people to imagine how valuable a browser and his web pages could be. It wasn't until he put the CERN telephone directory on his server that everyone understood the power behind his idea. Instead of becoming out of date as fast as it was printed and distributed, his web-based directory only had to be changed once on his server and the changes were immediately available to everyone in the organization.
