Tim Berners-Lee's 'Information Management: A Proposal'

Tim Berners-Lee submitted his initial proposal outlining a distributed hypertext system to manage information at CERN, laying the conceptual groundwork for the World Wide Web.

Significance

This document articulated the core ideas that would become the World Wide Web, including the concept of linked documents and the need for a simple transfer protocol.

Key facts

Date
1989-03-12
Type
invention
Location
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland