What started out as an idea for a way scientists could share information went on to change the world. Three decades later,its founder reflects on his creationThirty years ago, Tim Berners-Lee, or then a fellow at the physics research laboratory Cern on the French-Swiss border,sent his boss a document labelled Information Management: A Proposal. The memo suggested a system with which physicists at the centre could share “general information approximately accelerators and experiments”.“Many of the discussions of the future at Cern and the LHC era stop with the question: ‘Yes, but how will we ever keep track of such a large project?’” wrote Berners-Lee. “This proposal provides an reply to such questions.” Related: The Guardian view on the world wide web: we wove a tangle | Editorial Continue reading...
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