Born on March 12
The Web's Birthday
Vague, but exciting.
Next: March 12, 2027
Where it comes from
This Story marks the anniversary of the first proposal for the World Wide Web. In March 1989 Tim Berners-Lee, a British computer scientist at CERN, the physics laboratory near Geneva, gave his boss Mike Sendall a paper called 'Information Management: A Proposal'.
How it's celebrated
There is no formal observance, but the proposal is easy to visit: CERN has published it online, Sendall's handwritten note included, and keeps the home of the first website at info.cern.ch. It is a good day to send a card online, follow a few links for fun, and remember that all of it began as a memo.
Did you know
Berners-Lee wrote the first browser, called WorldWideWeb, on a NeXT computer, made by the company Steve Jobs founded after leaving Apple.
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