Fiften years of the web
On that date Cern, put the web in the public domain, “thereby ensuring that the world would have a single system for accessing the Internet, instead of a Microsoft Web, a Macintosh Web and who knows, perhaps even an Amstrad Web,” argues Gillies, who by the way is director of communications for Cern.
Cern’s Tim Berners-Lee recognized the need to manage the data on the web in a simpler way than the complex protocols that had limited the Internet to academics and government bureaucrats.
Encouraged by his bosses, he created the first browser on a NeXT computer using URLs, HTML and HTTP protocols.
Berners-Lee went on to head up the MIT-based World Wide Web Consortium that sets global standards for the web. Recently, he said that even after 15 years of existence and 165 million websites around the world the web is “still in its infancy.”
Berners’Lee argues that the web’s ability to engender collaboration could one day see the web being used to help manage the planet.
“What’s exciting is that people are building new social systems, new systems of review, new systems of governance.
