Spinning the Web

CERN -- collective of European high-energy physics researchers

CERN (Conseil European pour la Recherche Nucleaire) members located in number of different countries

In 1989 Tim Berners-Lee (from England) proposed global hypertext project

Tim created first Web software in October 1990

World-Wide Web first made available outside CERN on the Internet in summer of 1991

Means of sharing research information and ideas effectively throughout organization

(In 1994 Tim joined Laboratory for Computer Science at MIT as Director of World-Wide Web Consortium which coordinates Web development worldwide)