ately sound, video, and other means as required.October 1990: almost a year later, the project was presented again with some minor changes. Two months later the project began to take shape. Work began on the first “line browser” for the World Wide Web (WWW or Web), and by the end of 1990 this browser and a browser for the “NeXTStep operating system were well on the way." 3March 1991: now two years later after the original proposal, the first WWW browser saw limited network use, and two months later, the WWW browser was extensively in use at Geneva’s European Particle Physics Laboratories, and the Web was off and running. By October 1991: merely ten months after starting work on the project, seminars, workshops and newsgroup announcements were held about the Web. In addition, this brought the installation of the gateway for Wide Area Information Servers (WAIS) searches (Now known as WAISgate, a critical development for the Web’s future as a search and browsing tool). With his proposal it seems that Tim Berners-Lee had a technological break-through of the century at hand even though he was improving on existing technology.As we have seen from our lessons, technological achievements are often a result of past technological advances that were previously discovered or improved. Such a case being the discovery of a Penicillin strain by Alexander Fleming in 1928. Even though three men had received the Nobel Prize for penicillin, women had discovered the mold’s usefulness centuries ago. (Halsbury 1971, 19; Raper 1952, 1) One individual, Elizabeth Stone, an early antibiotic therapist specialized in treating lumberjack’s wounds with poultices of moldy bread in warm milk or water, “she never lost a patient” (Stellman 1977, 87).8By the end of 1991, Geneva’s European Particle Physics Laboratory, made the Web available to the High Energy Physics community.It is important to realize that the ...
