Proposal for the World Wide Web

Date: March 12, 1989 • Location: Meyrin, Switzerland

Tim Berners-Lee submits his proposal to CERN for an information management system, which subsequently develops into the World Wide Web.

Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee, also known as TimBL, is an English computer scientist best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web, HTML, the URL system, and HTTP. He is a professorial research fellow at the University of Oxford and a professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).