Neon-Fox-News: Small Country - Big Ideas #02

Geneva, Switzerland – What began in 1989 as a way to help physicists share research data turned into one of the most transformative inventions in human history. British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee, working at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, proposed a system that would let scientists link and access information stored on different computers.

His proposal introduced three now-fundamental concepts: HTML (the language for formatting pages), URLs (addresses for finding them), and HTTP (the protocol for retrieving them). Berners-Lee built the first web browser and the first web server directly on his NeXT computer at CERN.

On August 6, 1991, he made the world's first website public, describing his new "World Wide Web" project — laying the foundation for the internet as most people experience it today.

CERN later made the technology freely available to everyone, without royalties, a decision widely credited with allowing the Web to spread rapidly around the globe.

Today, the World Wide Web connects billions of people — from communication and commerce to science and education — a striking example of how a tool built to solve one narrow problem can end up reshaping the entire world.

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