30 years ago today on 13 March 1989, a British scientist presented a research paper at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research. His name was Tim Berners Lee.
Thirty years ago today on 13 March 1989, a British scientist presented a research paper at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research that would change all of our lives forever. His name was Tim Berners Lee.
That paper, “Information Management: A Proposal”, described what we now know as the World Wide Web – albeit in a much more basic form than we have today. It was Sir Berners-Lee’s document that resulted in the creation of Hyper Text Markup Language, better known as HTML, which would later allow images and texts to be presented in web format for the first time.
Berners-Lee has written a letter to mark the 30th anniversary in which he laments that”while the web has created opportunity, given marginalised groups a voice, and made our daily lives easier, it has also created opportunity for scammers, given a voice to those who spread hatred, and made all kinds of crime easier to commit.
