“I read it on the Internet” is a common saying when asking about the source of a claim, but technically this is very inaccurate because the things you read on the Internet are in a special part of the Internet: the World Wide Web, or WWW for short. And its creator, Tim Berners-Lee, turned 67 on June 8th. Happy Birthday!

Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the Internet

One fine day (maybe it was not so nice, we don't know) in 1989, a young engineer named Tim Berners-Lee developed something that is the basis of the World Wide Web: the "Hypertext Transfer Protocol" (HTTP). This is a standard protocol that determines how data is transferred between computers.

A network of computers had existed for a long time, to be exact since October 29, 1969, when engineers managed to network two computers together so that they could exchange data with each other. That was basically the birth of the Internet (we are still years away from the World Wide Web), which was then called “ ARPANET ”.

20 years later, in 1989, Lee began laying the foundation for the WWW and a year later, in October 1990, presented the three fundamental technologies that still form the basis of the Internet today:

  • HTML: HyperText Markup Language. The markup language (formatting language) for the web
  • URI: Uniform resource identifier. A type of “address” that is unique and used to identify each resource on the web. It is also commonly referred to as a URL
  • HTTP: Hypertext transfer protocol. Allows you to retrieve linked resources from across the web

Tim also wrote the first web editor/browser (“WorldWideWeb.app”) and the first web server (“httpd”). At the end of 1990, the first website was placed on the open Internet, and in 1991 people outside CERN were invited to join this new web community.

And thanks to Tim Berners-Lee, you can now read this and many other articles from us.

Therefore: Thank you Tim and HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

Additional sources: That's Nonsense , The Online Library Learning Center

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