Thirty years ago, an English software engineer submitted a "vague, but exciting" proposal to his boss about a system for managing information that would later be known as the World Wide Web. Tim Berners-Lee was in his early 30s when he submitted the idea at work, a physics laboratory in Switzerland. He wasn't hired to create a worldwide communication system. He simply came up with the idea because he noticed inefficiencies at work. "I found it frustrating that in those days, there was different information on different computers, but you had to log on to different computers to get at it ... So finding out how things worked was really difficult," he said.
The anniversary event was held at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research. This is the research center where Berners-Lee was working as a computer engineer when he developed his ideas for the World Wide Web. His proposal sought to create a way for computers across the world to communicate with each other. The British computer scientist, now 63, had the idea for the hypertext transfer protocol - the “http” in front of each website address. The “http” system enabled the sending and receiving of written information and small images through a software program that became the first web browser. This browser prepared the way for internet availability for large numbers of people through home computers.
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