- 1977: Internet
- Interconnection of several networks via TCP/IP
- 1980s: Hypertext
- Proposed by Vannevar Bush in 1945
- Early systems by the 1960s; commercial sysytems by the 1980s
- 1986: SGML (ISO 8879)
- Standard Generalised Markup Language
- 1989: CERN
- Centralised documentation based on SGML
- Large Electron Positron Collider, world's largest particle accelerator
- 27km ring around Geneva buried 100m below ground
- 300 scientists, 34 institutions worldwide needed access to their information
- 1990: The Web
- Invented by Sir Timothy Berners-Lee (Tim) helped by Robert Cailliau
- A hypertext system using the internet marked up as an application of SGML (HTML) for CERN scientists
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25 December 1990: the first Web server was switched on at CERN
- 1992: Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) turned on web server (one of first 50)
- 1994: Tim established World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to define the standards used on the Web,
supported by US and European governments
