The world was different 20 years ago. German radio reported these days that many teenagers have only a vague idea that back then, Germany was cut in half by a daunting wall. On a lighter note, today’s kids may also have difficulties to imagine that there was no WorldWideWeb at that time.br /br /a onblur=”try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}” href=”http://info.cern.ch/Proposal.html”img style=”display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 230px;” src=”http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AWa1cp-Somo/Sa2_1zv2IzI/AAAAAAAAAYk/fnnrOKECs-g/s400/www20.jpg” border=”0″ alt=”"id=”BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5309110466884543282″ //abr /br /But can you believe it? The beginnings of the wonderfully worldwide web go back to the time when the Iron Curtain was still dividing Europe. br /br /In March 1989, English computer scientist a href=”http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/”Tim Berners-Lee/a, then working at CERN, had set himself a bold task. As he had noted, iMany of the discussions of the future at CERN and the LHC era end with the question - “Yes, but how will we ever keep track of such a large project?”/i. So, he prepared a a href=”http://www.w3.org/History/1989/proposal.html”proposal/a to iprovide[] an answer to such questions/i. He introduced ithe idea of linked information systems/i and isuggested steps we should take to involve ourselves with hypertext now/i.br /br /His boss, Mike Sendall, sympathetically judged these ideas as ‘vague, but exciting’, and Tim Berners-Lee was allowed to continue following his vision. With the help of his colleague Robert Cailliau and a few students, he created the World Wide Web, designed and built the first web browser, and developed and started the first Web server, CERN HTTPd.br /br /The rest is a href=”http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_World_Wide_Web”history/a.div class=”blogger-post-footer”"You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.” ~ Albert Einsteinimg width=’1′ height=’1′ src=’http://res1.blogblog.com/tracker/22973357-2028400454079196118?l=backreaction.blogspot.com’//div