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15 Years Of The World Wide Web

In late summer of 1991, an information technology consultant named Tim Berners-Lee posted an unassuming message to the alt.hypertext newsgroup, making public a project he had been working on for the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN). He began, "The WorldWideWeb (WWW) project aims to allow links to be made to any information anywhere."

With that memo, Tim Berners-Lee changed the world. No one -- not even Berners-Lee himself -- saw it coming. Not on this magnitude.

15 Years Of The World Wide Web


 Introduction


 WWW: Past, Present, And Future


 Browser Wars: The Saga Continues


 The Skinny On Web 2.0

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