The Web Turns 20
20 years ago the web got its start.
“Vague but exciting,” is how Mike Sendall initially described the project outline, handed to him by one of his researchers, Tim Berners-Lee on 13 March, 1989.
That paper, "Information Management: A Proposal", was the starting point for Berners Lee’s creation of the World Wide Web. The full text of the proposal is available here.
And then the web was born.
What we should all thank Berners-Lee (and Cern) for is the decision to set the World Wide Web free. On 30 April 1993, the group announced that no royalties fees would ever be charged for the web.
Of that decision, Tim Berners-Lee has said: "It allowed the web to takeoff... I knew that it was absolutely essential. I knew that none of the people I was talking to would have been involved at all if they had thought that they were buying into some commercially controlled product."
