The history behind the World Wide Web began in 1980. An independent contractor for the European Organization for Nuclear Research, Tim Berners-Lee, built a database called ENQUIRE.
The database was for people and software models, but users could also use hypertext on the database. Each new page of information on the database could be linked to another, already existing, page.
In 1984, Berners-Lee wrote a proposal for a large hypertext database with typed links to solve the problem that a number of scientists were having around the world.
Scientists needed to share information with each other, but there were no common machines or programs to allow them to do that. Berners-Lee then began to work on this idea and writing the system at his NeXT workstation. It was here that he decided to name the program the World Wide Web, after throwing out such other names as “The Information Mine” and “Mine of Information.”
He began working with a partner, Robert Cailliau. This partner improved Berners-Lee’s original proposal and it was published on November 12, 1990.
