How was WWW Created?

* March 1989 - Tim Berners-Lee of CERN (European Particle Physics Laboratory) proposed the project.

* End of 1990 - first piece of Web software on NeXT. Demonstration at Hypertext '91 conference.

* 1992 - Tim continued to speak on and evangelize the project. Small handfuls of developers working on small pieces of WWW.

* 1993 - NCSA releases the Killer Application, Mosaic.

* 1993 & 1994 - The WWW sees phenomenal growth and much higher Press and Media profile.

More Information.


Electronic Commerce on the Internet - WWW (World Wide Web) - the "Glossy Brochure"
Rodney Campbell [Rodney.Campbell@Telstra.com.au]
(c) Copyright 1995 Telstra Corporation.

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