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

Tim Berners-Lee submitted his initial proposal for a 'universal linked information system' to his supervisor, Mike Sendall, who famously annotated it 'Vague but exciting...'. This document outlined the fundamental concepts of the World Wide Web.

Significance

This proposal marked the theoretical genesis of the World Wide Web, laying out the need for and the core ideas behind interconnected hypertext documents, which would later be realized through HTML, HTTP, and URLs.