Who really invented the internet?

By Alejandra Vargas

Sometime, when we talk about internet creator a big question comes: Who really invented the internet: CERN or the US military? It was maybe someone else?
The answer it easy: it was Tim Berners-Lee.

Twenty years ago, he handed a document to his supervisor Mike Sendall entitled "Information Management : a Proposal".
At that moment Sendall said: "Vague, but exciting” and he gave Tim the nod to take his proposal forward.
This scientist wrote the first web client and server in 1990. His specifications of URIs, HTTP and HTML were refined as Web technology spread.
The following year, the World Wide Web was born and it changes the world forever and ever.
Tim Berners-Lee is from England and he studied at Oxford University in 1989. Berners-Lee invented an Internet-based hypermedia initiative for global information sharing while at the European Particle Physics Laboratory of The European Organization for Nuclear Research CERN.
Now, he is the director of the World Wide Web Consortium, the 3COM Founders Professor of Engineering in the School of Engineering, with a joint appointment in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science MIT's CSAIL where he leads the Decentralized Information Group (DIG), and Professor of Computer Science at Southampton ECS.

See more information: http://public.web.cern.ch/public/en/About/Web-en.html