A Proposal Sets Out the World Wide Web Project
Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau produced a formal WorldWideWeb proposal dated November 12, 1990, at CERN.
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The Event
Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau produced a formal WorldWideWeb proposal dated November 12, 1990, at CERN. It developed an earlier proposal into a practical project.
The Wider Story
The plan connected hypertext with networked information access. Browsers, servers and links would make documents easier to find and connect.
Putting the Event in Perspective
The Web is not synonymous with the Internet, which already existed.
Reading the Historical Record
This date marks a proposal, not the instantaneous public launch of every part of the later global system.
About the Historical Recreation
The accompanying visual is an illustrative reconstruction: a CERN office in 1990 with a period NeXT computer and unreadable technical papers. It is not authentic archival footage, an eyewitness record or additional evidence for the event.
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