Invention of the World Wide Web
1989 · Event
Tim Berners-Lee at CERN circulates his proposal for a linked hypertext information system — the basis of the World Wide Web.
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- Turing's On Computable Numbers (1936)
- Google founded (1998)
- First website goes online (1990)
- Moore's Law formulated (1965)
- Mosaic makes the web visual (1993)
- Turing's Computing Machinery and Intelligence (1950)
- Apple II launched (1977)
- First networked email sent (1971)
Around 1989
- Chernobyl disaster (1986)
- Dissolution of the Soviet Union (1991)
- Gulf War (1990)
- Yugoslav Wars (1991)
- (Everything I Do) I Do It for You (Bryan Adams) (1991)
- Another Brick in the Wall (Part II) (Pink Floyd) (1979)
- That's The Way Love Goes (Janet Jackson) (1993)
- Pop music: the 1980s (1980)
- Pop music: the 1990s (1990)
- Fall of the Berlin Wall (1989)