Birth of WWW / World Wide Web

In early years internet was used only by U.S. defense researchers or some top level scientists. But the whole scenario changed when Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web 25 years ago.
While being a student at Oxford, he built a computer terminal with a broken down television set for the screen and a discarded adding machine. He used the microprocessor chip for his terminal to work.

At the age of 25 he was a computer consultant at CERN, where he developed software to archive and link his own notes and documents, calling it “enquire”. He also expanded it by using random links to access all links stored in CERN computers. In 1989 he linked information on all computers across the world by creating a virtual mess. This was a robust app the internet badly needed. This was called “the world wide web”

One of the reasons why WWW took off so well is that the owner never demanded any patent right or royalty in order to ensure free expansion, which he is still striving through the World Wide Web Foundation he launched in 2009. He was knighted by the Queen in 2004, already being a part of Tech-royalty. When he was asked about the reason why he created the web, the answer was ‘frustration’. He was frustrated that the internet was not there. Instead of worrying about the number of people using the internet, he made sure that the system didn’t break down. He pursued people to put all the information on the web by writing documentation, visiting conferences, teaching people how to use it and writing software.

With WWW web he has been pushing people to put data on the web. The foundation wants to get involved in trying to accelerate people’s getting on the web. They want to make sure that the web actually extended to people in rural communities. He said in an interview “if I go to a church, it’s a UU church. The UU (Unitarian Universalist) do not require you to believe in as many as six impossible things before breakfast, so you can be a scientist. What’s important to me is that what we do and what we believe in is consistent with reason.”