The Man Who Gave the Web to the World.
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Unfortunately, many people confuse the web with the internet. The internet already existed. It was the network of computers. But the web is that world of pages we access through browsers like Chrome or Edge. It’s what we use every day to browse, read news, shop, connect. And it’s a specific invention, just one part of the internet. So I thought I would tell you the story of the man who created it and what he did: #TimBernersLee
Back then, to search through scientific articles, you had to use Gopher. It was a clunky, primitive system that made every search a struggle.
We are at CERN in Geneva, in 1989. Tim is a young British engineer. He sees that researchers have mountains of data but no simple way to share it. He doesn’t invent everything from scratch. He takes inspiration from hypertexts, which already existed offline, and creates a meta-language (HTML) to bring that same logic online and connect content across computers. That’s how the World Wide Web was born.
The stakes were enormous. The web could be born free, or it could become just another closed product in the hands of those who wanted to profit from it.
Tim chose the opposite path. In 1993 he released the code of the World Wide Web free of charge, without patents or licenses. He gave up billions to ensure it belonged to everyone. That was his heroic act: the return with the gift.
Today Berners-Lee teaches at MIT here in the United States, and he keeps reminding us that the web was born as an open space, not as a platform dominated by a few.
Tim started as an engineer trying to solve a technical problem. He returned as the hero who gave the world the greatest infrastructure of digital freedom in history.
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