Tim Berners-Lee’s visi				  nformation system beca		  y the second half of the 1980s.
By 1985, the global In				  in Europe and in the D		  (upon which the Uniform Resourc
e Locator is built) ca				  irst direct IP connect		   and North America was made and
Berners-Lee began to o				  y of a web-like system		   1989 Berners-Lee issued a prop
osal to the management				   "Mesh" that reference		  se and software project he had
						  ibed a more elaborate 		  ment system based on links embe
						  ces in this document a		  d with the network address of t
						  ding this document you		  m with a click of the mouse." S
						  sing one of the existi		   word hypertext, a term that he
says was coined in the				  the proposal continues		  xt links could not encompass mu
ltimedia documents inc				  video, so that Berners		  e the term hypermedia. With hel
p from his colleague a				  st Robert Cailliau, he		  formal proposal on 12 November 
1990 to build a "Hyper				  ideWeb" (one word) as 		  ext documents" to be viewed by 
“browsers” using a cli				  this point HTML and HT		  n in development for about two 
months and the first W				  from completing its fi		  t. This proposal estimated that
 a read-only web would				  onths and that it woul		  to achieve "the creation of new
 links and new materia				  orship becomes univers		  e automatic notification of a r
eader when new materia				   become available." Wh		  goal was met, accessible author
ship of web content to				  e wiki concept, WebDAV		  nd RSS/Atom. The proposal was m
odelled after the SGML 				  ic Book Technology, a 		  Institute for Research in Infor
mation and Scholarship 				  natext system, license		  ey player in the extension of S
GML ISO 8879:1986 to H				   it was considered too		   an inappropriate licensing pol
icy for use in the gen				  unity, namely a fee fo		  d each document alteration. A 
NeXT Computer was used 				  s first web server and		   first web browser, WorldWideW
eb, in 1990. By Christ				  ilt all the tools nece		  g Web. the first web browser (w
hich was a web editor 				  erver. The first web s		  ed the project itself, was publ
ished on 20 December 1				  be lost, but Paul Jone		  ll in North Carolina announced 
in May 2013 that Berne				   is the oldest known w		  				
it on a magneto-optica				  uter. On 6 August 1991		  				
rld Wide Web project o				  t. This date is someti		  				 
first web servers, whi				  er. As another example		  				
hat the first photo on				  rners-Lee in 1992, an 		  house band Les Horribles Cernet
tes taken by Silvano d				  aimed this story, writ		  e "totally distorting our words
for the sake of cheap