Blog Assignment 4

You know, I've often wondered who invented he internet. Until now, I also thought it was just one of those things that materialized one day and people were just like "Oh, cool", and accepted it. Like post-its. However, in researching this latest blog topic, I discovered that there was an actual living, breathing founding-father of, let's face it, my home away from home.

Tim Berners is a British-born computer scientist and professor based in Boston, Massachusetts. In 1989, he wrote a research proposal for creating the internet, the first proposal on the subject. Two years later, in 1990, Berners was successful in bridging communication between an HTTP client and server via the internet, marking the early beginnings of what would grow to become a worldwide phenomenon.

Today, Berners still maintains an important web presence (pun intended). He is the director of the World Wide Web Consortium, which continues to develop the web; founder of the World Wide Web Foundation; and a senior researcher at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, which means that he's probably responsible for some of these:



Thank you, Tim Berners.