Inventor · 1955

Tim Berners-Lee

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HTTP

Tim Berners-Lee · 1989

HTTP is the minimal, functional core that made the Web possible — not because it was elegant, but because it was small, implementable, and free.

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The World Wide Web solved CERN’s internal document chaos by replacing rigid hierarchies and keyword tagging with decentralised, cross-computer hyperlinks. It shipped as a working stack—browser, server, HTTP, HTML, URLs—by December 1990. It assumed voluntary adoption, required no central authority, and offered no search or persistence. Its 1993 royalty-free release enabled scale—but not control.