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It was on this day 36 years ago when @timbl submitted his proposal to CERN for an "information management system", precursor to the World Wide Web.

"In the proposal, Berners-Lee modestly spoke of wanting to use hypertext, a.k.a. links, to help CERN deal with information storage issues.

[...]

His boss’s response?

“Vague, but exciting.”"

vox.com/2019/3/12/18260709/30t…

#OTD #OnThisDay #internet #TheWeb #history #VagueButExciting


The World Wide Web — not the internet — turns 30 years old

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Here's the actual proposal, from info.cern.ch/Proposal.html

A piece of history.

A scan of a printed first page of the Information Management Proposal, with the following Abstract section: "This proposal concerns the management of general information about accelerators and experiments at CERN. It discusses the problems of loss of information about complex evolving systems and derives a solution based on a distributed hypertext system." Below are listed keywords: Hypertext, Computer conferencing, Document retrieval, Information management, Project control Further below is a schematic showing a proposed way to organize information in a computer network. At the top of the image is a magnifying glass hovering over a handwritten note that reads: "Vague but exciting..."

cern.info.ch - Tim Berners-Lee's proposal

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this led me down an interesting rabbit hole! I saw that this image mentioned "hyper card" and I didn't realize the term existed before "HyperCard"