William Caxton was sure that the printing press he’d bought was a great idea. But he didn’t realise that it would change the world. Five hundred years later, in 1989, Tim Berners Lee had an idea.

Learn More Tim Berners-Lee founded the web in the early 1990s as a tool for collaboration. But this initial vision was sidelined by read-only web browsers better suited for consuming content ...

The internet we use today owes much of its look and feel to Sir Tim Berners-Lee' and his creation, the World Wide Web. The web's launch can be traced back 35 years to Berners-Lee's paper ...

This work would eventually evolve into hypertext, HTML and the World Wide Web. Tim Berners-Lee in 2000 (William Plowman/AP) In 1980, CERN was the place to be for cutting-edge computer research.