As fate would have it, she waited a few extra days. Īnd here are Berners-Lee’s touching words putting the birth of the Web in the context of the personally more emotionally affecting birth of his first child:Īs significant an event as this was, I wasn’t that keyed up about it, only because my wife and I were expecting our first child, due Christmas Eve.
… The browser/editor was working on my machine and Robert’s, communicating over the Internet with the server by Christmas Day 1990. … In one fell swoop, a huge amount of the information that was already on the Internet was available on the Web. I programmed the browser so it could follow links not only to files on HTTP servers but also to Internet news articles and newsgroups. Meanwhile, I took one quick step that would demonstrate the concept of the Web as a universal, all-encompassing space. Apparently based on Berners-Lee’s description excerpted below from his book Weaving the Web, most commentators say that it happened “by Christmas day.” Here’s Berners-Lee’s narrative:
The exact date in December when this first happened was apparently not recorded. But it wasn’t until December that Berners-Lee, working with CERN colleague Robert Cailliau, demonstrated communication between a Web server and another computer. At that time he wrote a more detailed description of his idea and named it “The Web,” so that’s been seen by some as the Web’s birth date.
The events of 1990 raise more questions - Berners-Lee went to work on making a working model of the Web when his proposal was finally approved by CERN in early November 1990. And, notably, just this month, in his article on the future of the Open Web, Berners-Lee says that he’s writing on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Web - So he apparently sees the Web’s birth as having been when he did the nitty-gritty production work on it in 1990. But it wasn’t until 1990 that Berners-Lee named it “The Web” and demonstrated a real working model. Many of the aspects of the invention of the Web by Tim Berners-Lee are well-known, especially the technical details, but there are some aspects that are are more hazy - One is the question of what constitutes “The Birth of the Web”? The other is the interesting story of how the birth of the Web was interwoven with the birth of Berners-Lee’s first child.īerners-Lee proposed his idea for the yet-unnamed web to CERN in 1989, and based on that, last year (2009) was celebrated by CERN as the 20th anniversary of the Web.
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