Web turns 20 today.
Back in 1989, Berners-Lee was a software consultant working at the European Organization for Nuclear Research outside of Geneva, Switzerland. On March 13 of that year, he submitted a plan to management on how to better monitor the flow of research at the labs.
That’s how the seeds of the world wide web got started. It is difficult to believe it has been only 20 years and we can not imagine a world without it.
Here is the video of a TED talk by Tim Berners Lee (via techcrunch):