"Information and management: a proposal", submitted to CERN, to address
the question "...how will we ever keep track of such a large project?"

The proposal uses the image of "a 'web' of notes with links (like
references) between them...like a diagram of circles and arrows, where
circles and arrows can stand for anything'.

Later that year, TB-L "implemented the first successful communication
between a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) client and server via the
Internet." (Wiki)

And that, children, is how it all began....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CERN
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web

Ar an triú lá déag de mí Márta, scríobh Ross Clark:

> [...] Later that year, TB-L "implemented the first successful communication
> between a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) client and server via the
> Internet." (Wiki)
>
> And that, children, is how it all began....

You say on Usenet, a non-WWW communication protocol! Plenty of email sent too,
plenty of Whatsapp, SMS. But yes, the web was a huge step.

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CERN
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web

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