November 12: Tim Berners-Lee’s proposal for the World Wide Web (1990)

Tim Berners-Lee

The Internet was originated from the development of a packet switching network ARPANET funded by the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) of the US Department of Defense. It is the network of networks based on the communication protocol TCP/IP. In the early days, the Internet was mainly for military and academics. The biggest trigger of transforming the Internet from a medium for limited academics and researchers to a public medium was the development of the World Wide Web (WWW), which implemented the concept of hypertext for resources available on the Internet. Tim Berners-Lee of CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) proposed World Wide Web and then released the first web browser and web editor WorldWideWeb.  It was the beginning of the Internet for the public.